how long is hardware supposed to be supported by software? 10, 20, 30 years?
10 years at least. I should be able to get as much use out of a computing appliance as I do out of other purchases such as a car, washing machine, microwave, dishwasher, TV, etc.
Intel and AMD will get to sell more CPUs. Did you notice how the demo pretty much sucks up all of your CPU time? Flash is at least a little bit more efficient.
Not to mention that if you're using OpenOffice (like this article suggests you do) then you don't need a separate PDF app. OO.o generates PDFs just fine.
Which is useful if you only create PDFs from OpenOffice and no other program. PDFCreator installs a PDF printer driver. Once installed, any program that can print can make a PDF. That's much more useful.
the person that designed the SIP protocol in such an incredibly NAT-unfriendly manner should be drawn and quartered. I know there are work-arounds, but i blame this NAT-unfriendliness for the rise of skype, and now we're stuck with that nonstandard closed protocol crap.
NAT is the problem, not SIP. We'll all be better off when we can get rid of NAT and all of the problems that it causes.
If you save your buffer to disk you can access the contents without having to use software that requires a client/server architecture just to edit files.
I'm almost 40 and I can't write nor read cursive. It makes me feel illiterate when I have to hand something written in cursive to someone else and ask if they can read it to me. But, honestly, people are using cursive less and less these days and I've discovered that I'm not the only one who has trouble reading it.
Your post is off-topic from the video and the Slashdot article. This isn't a comparison about how Linux compares versus OpenBSD. The video, if you watch it, is about how the OpenBSD team manages their releases, meets their agreed upon release dates, and makes sure that each release is a quality product.
The points he discusses in his video revolve around conducting adequate testing of the product and having the developers use the to-be-released system rather than throwing something out as a release and moving on. His points about managing the release process are just as valid if they were applied to manufacturing and releasing cars, paper products, or skateboards as they are to operating systems.
If we live in a world where a good image manipulating application is overlooked because its name is GIMP, there is something wrong with the world.
You can curse the darkness all you want but that's the way human beings work. Perceptions are important. The word gimp is a pejorative term. The negative aspects of the term are going to be associated with the product which isn't going to make anyone feel good about using it. And for a lot of people, their feelings are important. Some people may be able to look past that and see it as just a good tool, but those people are few and far between.
...finds his world turned upside down when automatic weapons-toting government agents break down the door and take his Mom away in handcuffs. The teen finds himself in a prison jumpsuit forced to tattoo shirtless adult inmates who eventually turn on him, physically attack him, and make him run for his life back to his jail cell
The message I get from this is, "Wow, movies and music sound like dangerous stuff. I better avoid them at all costs whether purchased legally or not."
On Tuesday Microsoft also pushed an update for their.Net runtime that again tried to install a some kind of Firefox extension. I had already removed this extension and the associated registry entry a few months ago when the latest.Net runtime was installed. Here they are doing it again.
I suspect that this will have unintended consequences like a Streisand effect. Some people who might not think about the Tiananmen Square incident might wonder why they can't get to certain sites. They'll ask a friend about it who will respond "Maybe because it's the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident." The listener's memory will be refreshed and the chance of people forgetting about Tiananmen Square and the date the incident occurred will be lessened.
this is a backdoor that Symantec was forced to put in, similar to CIPAV. It is to be used by law enforcement and they are under court order not to reveal its existence. rootkit revealer will show you the entire directory.
That sounds a little too much like "James Bond" to me, mr anonymous poster. I think we should wait until someone disassembles it and looks at what it's doing.
I turn off my laptop because I will not have it running on battery when I move it around. When I go home for the weekend I turn my work station off. Why waste electricity when you're not going to use it for awhile? I doubt that I'm far from alone in turning off computers when they won't be needed for long amounts of time.
That's what hibernation does. It writes the state of the system to disk and turns the power off.
The screen is on the wrong side. Because of the numeric keypad, the home position for typing is to the left side of the computer. This means that you are facing the left side of your screen while typing instead of facing the center of the screen. Putting the second screen on the right makes this even worse. You'll type while always looking slightly to the right. If the screen had been placed on the left side, at least a user could sit in front of the computer, type, and be facing the center of the two screens.
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What does your legal agreement with this firm say?
10 years at least. I should be able to get as much use out of a computing appliance as I do out of other purchases such as a car, washing machine, microwave, dishwasher, TV, etc.
Maybe Ubuntu users should ask for a refund from their vendor.
Intel and AMD will get to sell more CPUs. Did you notice how the demo pretty much sucks up all of your CPU time? Flash is at least a little bit more efficient.
Just create a new Firefox profile for porn surfing. You can then run that profile with "firefox -p <profilename>".
Maybe it's a rendering bug. I'm seeing your message as having responded to GF678 (1453005) as expected.
Which is useful if you only create PDFs from OpenOffice and no other program. PDFCreator installs a PDF printer driver. Once installed, any program that can print can make a PDF. That's much more useful.
Yeah, I had that happen when I recently installed it. It's pretty slimy and left me with a bad impression of PDFCreator.
How about a list of more apps?
Anyone else have any good recommendations?
NAT is the problem, not SIP. We'll all be better off when we can get rid of NAT and all of the problems that it causes.
So owning a Mac is exotic and fast, just like owning a Ferrari. I think I can live with that. :-)
If you save your buffer to disk you can access the contents without having to use software that requires a client/server architecture just to edit files.
I'm almost 40 and I can't write nor read cursive. It makes me feel illiterate when I have to hand something written in cursive to someone else and ask if they can read it to me. But, honestly, people are using cursive less and less these days and I've discovered that I'm not the only one who has trouble reading it.
Your post is off-topic from the video and the Slashdot article. This isn't a comparison about how Linux compares versus OpenBSD. The video, if you watch it, is about how the OpenBSD team manages their releases, meets their agreed upon release dates, and makes sure that each release is a quality product.
The points he discusses in his video revolve around conducting adequate testing of the product and having the developers use the to-be-released system rather than throwing something out as a release and moving on. His points about managing the release process are just as valid if they were applied to manufacturing and releasing cars, paper products, or skateboards as they are to operating systems.
You can curse the darkness all you want but that's the way human beings work. Perceptions are important. The word gimp is a pejorative term. The negative aspects of the term are going to be associated with the product which isn't going to make anyone feel good about using it. And for a lot of people, their feelings are important. Some people may be able to look past that and see it as just a good tool, but those people are few and far between.
Don't forget to include this in your Windows TCO calculations.
The message I get from this is, "Wow, movies and music sound like dangerous stuff. I better avoid them at all costs whether purchased legally or not."
Does high-quality journalism even exist anymore?
On Tuesday Microsoft also pushed an update for their .Net runtime that again tried to install a some kind of Firefox extension. I had already removed this extension and the associated registry entry a few months ago when the latest .Net runtime was installed. Here they are doing it again.
No they aren't.
No one said anything about it not being connected to the internet.
I suspect that this will have unintended consequences like a Streisand effect. Some people who might not think about the Tiananmen Square incident might wonder why they can't get to certain sites. They'll ask a friend about it who will respond "Maybe because it's the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident." The listener's memory will be refreshed and the chance of people forgetting about Tiananmen Square and the date the incident occurred will be lessened.
That sounds a little too much like "James Bond" to me, mr anonymous poster. I think we should wait until someone disassembles it and looks at what it's doing.
That's what hibernation does. It writes the state of the system to disk and turns the power off.
The screen is on the wrong side. Because of the numeric keypad, the home position for typing is to the left side of the computer. This means that you are facing the left side of your screen while typing instead of facing the center of the screen. Putting the second screen on the right makes this even worse. You'll type while always looking slightly to the right. If the screen had been placed on the left side, at least a user could sit in front of the computer, type, and be facing the center of the two screens.