Divide and conquer. It's not for no reason there are only a handful of DEs. These projects need a lot of people. If half the people move to a fork, could either progress at a pace that would allow them to keep up with other DEs?
It's a common story about young entrepreneurs that give samples of their products to "popular" people to create demand. This is, ultimately, just that strategy writ large.
Rooms for rent in my area yields 1 in-town location on Kijiji. Posted October 7. It provides two other offerings (also from October) that are 80 and 140 miles away.
Craigslist has 5 in-town hits and 6 more within plausible commuting distance posted since yesterday.
I wonder if the problem wasn't him trying to prove aliens existed, schools can be weird on religious grounds - is that a subtext here?
No, the problem was that he was stealing a lot of idle processing power to pursue a personal hobby. Maybe if he had gotten somebody to sign off on this it wouldn't have been an issue.
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Divide and conquer. It's not for no reason there are only a handful of DEs. These projects need a lot of people. If half the people move to a fork, could either progress at a pace that would allow them to keep up with other DEs?
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Don't forget LXDE, Enlightenment, the *box WMs, and the *wm WMs.
It's a common story about young entrepreneurs that give samples of their products to "popular" people to create demand. This is, ultimately, just that strategy writ large.
Cue Florida judges friending every lawyer in the state...
Before you know it, they'll come up with something so dumb they'll be offered tenure.
That the cat is a lie?
It's kind of pathetic, but I didn't notice the omission.
Windows users won't notice. Mac and *nix users, on the other hand...
Is China even participating in ACTA?
I personally prefer that software use a separate updater. As long as they all use the same one.
IIRC, there are special exceptions for companies that are not publicly traded.
Rooms for rent in my area yields 1 in-town location on Kijiji. Posted October 7. It provides two other offerings (also from October) that are 80 and 140 miles away.
Craigslist has 5 in-town hits and 6 more within plausible commuting distance posted since yesterday.
7? Mac reached version 10 a long time ago.
It (along with RT-11) is the oldest one Wikipedia lists.
If Linux was really user friendly they wouldn't have to.
Linux is user friendly. It's just really picky about who it's users are.
Fortunately, forum posts are timestamped.
On Windows the question the users ask isn't "How can I do this?" but rather "What do I have to buy that will do this?"
The OSs that Wikipedia says dir was used in (CP/M) appeared in 1973. It also says that Unix was using ls from the beginning: 1969.
Spam companies will just drag their heels SCO-style until the anti-spam organization is bankrupt.
I wonder if the problem wasn't him trying to prove aliens existed, schools can be weird on religious grounds - is that a subtext here?
No, the problem was that he was stealing a lot of idle processing power to pursue a personal hobby. Maybe if he had gotten somebody to sign off on this it wouldn't have been an issue.
...after it was revealed he had the software installed on some 5000 school machines.
IIRC, this guy was in charge of about 5000 computers.
Your memory is astounding.
Some of the highlights:...a new USB stack
Does that include support for USB 3.0?
Seconded.
There's no way a laptop would choke at 60 degrees Fahrenheit. That would make it never run at any usable speed, for all practical purposes.
Hence the controversy.