I just got back from a showing of Sky Captain, and liked it overall. Something which I found totally cool was the ornithopters (you know, the flapping-wing flying vehicles). It's a concept which has been theorized for many, many years (didn't DaVinci create ornithopter designs?), but perhaps is not very pratical with our current technology. Great to see those things in action. Not to mention seeing the dirigible landing on the Empire State Building finally put to use.:)
For the longest time MythTV's web site was broken on Linux systems because of a defective style sheet. Kinda weird for a Linux-based project site to not render properly on Linux-based systems. Thanks, guys!
It's also about controlling digital music players. With this deal, the CD manufacturers will provide some restriced WMA files on the disc, and most users won't have the knowledge or inclination to rip the tracks themselves. Therefore WMA will become more and more popular, into what (MS hopes) will be the standard format for digital music..
Public donations are a tried-and-true method for businesses to improve public opinion. Not to mention the influence this will have on the college students. A shrewd business move to be sure, and Bill has ever been a master of business sense. Don't forget, the donation was probably tax-deductible too. With that kind of crazy wealth, a person would pretty much have to give generous donations each year or pay even more in tax..
Then there's the 5th group, who realize that EULAs aren't worth the paper they're not printed on, but don't feel like wasting their personal fortunes fighting a case against a major corporation over what is most likely small claims. (less than $5000 damages)
More annoying are apps like Visual Studio.Net and the MSDN library. Moving the mouse over them pops them to the foreground
Photoshop also does this under certain conditions, and it is incredibly annoying. I'm not really surprised though -- their X-mouse is as broken as their virtual desktop support, leading inexperienced users to believe the concept is flawed, when in reality it's simply a flawed implementation.
It does it poorly, IMO. I use the XP tweakui focus-follows-mouse setting at work, and it has problems giving focus to application dialogue boxes. (explicitly needing the user to mouse over the dialogue box) Annoying.
As soon as the number of users reaches critical mass, it becomes "profitable" for virus writes.
Market saturation is only one element toward attracting malware. Another is security. If a system is popular enough, no doubt malware will be created for it, at least as a proof of concept. However, malware will never spread in the wild unless the system has insufficient security (by definition). I'm not claiming that any of today's operating systems has perfect security, but some are better than others.
It's true that Windows currently has an advantage with drivers for new hardware, since manufacturers rarely release a Linux driver immediately and it takes time for the community to develop open source drivers.
However, I've found that Linux has an advantage once the drivers are available, and especially with older hardware where it can be difficult to find manufacturer's binary drivers. Most Linux distros have had pretty nice device support 'out of the box' for a while now, assuming that a driver is available at all.
Even the 6502 based Commodore computer series (PET, VC20, C64 et. al.) had some kind of HAL, it was called the Kernel ROM, and developers were strongly encouraged to use the I/O-Routines provided by the Kernel ROM instead of writing their own.
Actually, the Commodore KERNAL was more of an OS than a HAL. (though I suppose parts of it could be considered that way)
Good thing we can use that list of sex offenders as an absolute moral guide, eh? Not like anyone ever got on there for public nudity charges (like peeing outdoors), or from sodomy laws which have since been ruled unconstitutional. Sheesh, what an asinine comment.
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Exactly, just like marijuana tax stamps. What a wonderful bureaucracy we've invented..
Assent is a perfectly good word, but noone is not.
Your braking my hart, I hate to be a looser grammar nazi, but it's these errors witch need two bee preventated.TinyURL link.
Gotta love content management systems with their inscrutable query strings..
I just got back from a showing of Sky Captain, and liked it overall. Something which I found totally cool was the ornithopters (you know, the flapping-wing flying vehicles). It's a concept which has been theorized for many, many years (didn't DaVinci create ornithopter designs?), but perhaps is not very pratical with our current technology. Great to see those things in action. Not to mention seeing the dirigible landing on the Empire State Building finally put to use. :)
There's 0x10 kinds of people in the world: those who know hex, and 15 other kinds..
For the longest time MythTV's web site was broken on Linux systems because of a defective style sheet. Kinda weird for a Linux-based project site to not render properly on Linux-based systems. Thanks, guys!
Alrighty then!
It's also about controlling digital music players. With this deal, the CD manufacturers will provide some restriced WMA files on the disc, and most users won't have the knowledge or inclination to rip the tracks themselves. Therefore WMA will become more and more popular, into what (MS hopes) will be the standard format for digital music..
Sweet. I never really saw the value in apt, until I began to use it with Fedora. Between apt and yum, I haven't touched an RPM in months.
apt will do.
Does Suse have apt now?
Let's have some fun with a simulated SAT question!
Windows 2000 is to Windows XP as:Don't forget about rebooting because software was installed/patches applied from Windows Update/etc. (mostly due to Windows' idiotic file locking)
Public donations are a tried-and-true method for businesses to improve public opinion. Not to mention the influence this will have on the college students. A shrewd business move to be sure, and Bill has ever been a master of business sense. Don't forget, the donation was probably tax-deductible too. With that kind of crazy wealth, a person would pretty much have to give generous donations each year or pay even more in tax..
Seems appropriate that she chose VB as a solution to implement this. One Q&D kludge deserves another..
Then there's the 5th group, who realize that EULAs aren't worth the paper they're not printed on, but don't feel like wasting their personal fortunes fighting a case against a major corporation over what is most likely small claims. (less than $5000 damages)
More annoying are apps like Visual Studio .Net and the MSDN library. Moving the mouse over them pops them to the foreground
Photoshop also does this under certain conditions, and it is incredibly annoying. I'm not really surprised though -- their X-mouse is as broken as their virtual desktop support, leading inexperienced users to believe the concept is flawed, when in reality it's simply a flawed implementation.
tweakui can do this
It does it poorly, IMO. I use the XP tweakui focus-follows-mouse setting at work, and it has problems giving focus to application dialogue boxes. (explicitly needing the user to mouse over the dialogue box) Annoying.
Other options:
As soon as the number of users reaches critical mass, it becomes "profitable" for virus writes.
Market saturation is only one element toward attracting malware. Another is security. If a system is popular enough, no doubt malware will be created for it, at least as a proof of concept. However, malware will never spread in the wild unless the system has insufficient security (by definition). I'm not claiming that any of today's operating systems has perfect security, but some are better than others.
It's true that Windows currently has an advantage with drivers for new hardware, since manufacturers rarely release a Linux driver immediately and it takes time for the community to develop open source drivers.
However, I've found that Linux has an advantage once the drivers are available, and especially with older hardware where it can be difficult to find manufacturer's binary drivers. Most Linux distros have had pretty nice device support 'out of the box' for a while now, assuming that a driver is available at all.
Even the 6502 based Commodore computer series (PET, VC20, C64 et. al.) had some kind of HAL, it was called the Kernel ROM, and developers were strongly encouraged to use the I/O-Routines provided by the Kernel ROM instead of writing their own.
Actually, the Commodore KERNAL was more of an OS than a HAL. (though I suppose parts of it could be considered that way)
In the immortal words of 'Bluto' Blutarsky:
Holy shit. Holy shit! Holy Shit!!
Really? I never read EULAs, but have my dog click the 'agree' button to limit liability. Works for me.
drink urine moron!
You first..
Good thing we can use that list of sex offenders as an absolute moral guide, eh? Not like anyone ever got on there for public nudity charges (like peeing outdoors), or from sodomy laws which have since been ruled unconstitutional. Sheesh, what an asinine comment.