I believe the version of Eclipse in Debian and Ubuntu is so far behind because the packagers haven't been able to produce a package of newer versions that runs using the GCJ native compiler, and they don't want to ship a version that uses the regular JVM. Why they would rather ship an ancient version of eclipse, than ship a java program that uses the JVM, I do not know.
When Apple had a chance to start from scratch with their own Unix did they use X11? Of course not. They rewrote a proper windowing system
But Apple didn't start from scratch - they started from Nextstep, Steve Jobs's earlier Unix GUI. Note that Nextstep isn't that much newer than X, and it shares some of the things that often get criticized in X, like the client-server architecture.
But the parent didn't say "every single player gets to define for themselves" the correct way to play. He said that players collectively get to define the correct way to play.
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we can say goodbye to Google's search quality
Yeah, it's a good thing everyone has been using valid XHTML since 1996; Google would just fall apart if it had to crawl non-valid HTML.
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I have been told that making page uses XML compatible HTML makes for a more predictable browsing experience and also lowers memory requirements.
You've been told wrong. Making your HTML or XHTML valid does make for a more predictable browsing experience, and may even lower memory requirements. Writing HTML that looks a bit like XML (e.g., using self-closing tags) and then serving it as HTML is completely pointless.
I've used both, and because of the strictness and use of lower case tags of xhtml I prefer it. Maybe there's only a few people it bothers but using all large cap tags bothers me. I also like it that xhtml separates content from structure.
Neither of these are unique features of XHTML. HTML is case insensitive, so you can use lower case tags if you wish, and XHTML 1 has exactly the same semantics as HTML 4.01, so XHTML and HTML are equally strict and separate content from structure to exactly the same extent.
Three or four years ago, you did have to right click on the CD icon to eject the CD, which my grandfather found rather confusing when I gave him my old computer; but the GNOME devs have long since added a more obvious GUI for ejecting CDs. Either click "File/Eject media" in the file manager window for the CD, or click the eject symbol next to the CD in the "Places" sidebar in the file manager. I assume KDE has something similar.
Linux on the desktop still does have problems, but X is not among them.
Ever tried to get dual monitors working? OK, ever tried to get dual monitors with differing resolutions working?
Plug in second monitor, select "System/Preferences/Display", set the resolutions and rotations on the two monitors, log out and log back in again, and you're done. What's the problem exactly?
You can't run Compiz and a 3D-accelerated application at the same time under DRI
That's just flat-out false, and I'm not sure where you would have got that idea from.
SGI had a workable rendering system in IRIX in the late 90's.
Yes, they did; it was called GLX, and has been available on Linux since 2000. DRI is based on this system, but allows you to avoid some overhead when the client and server are running on the same computer.
The words themselves aren't copyrightable, but you can still get a copyright on a specific printed form of the work.
I may be wrong here, but my understanding is that you need to do significant editorial work, such as abridgement or re-organization, to a work in order to get a new copyright on it. I don't think that if I just, say, downloaded a book from Project Gutenburg and typeset it to produce a printed version, I would gain any copyright in this printed version.
Granted, I believe this dialog is quite a recent addition to the project; I'm quite sure it wasn't there a couple of months ago.
I thought NM had had a dialog for that for a while; certainly, Ubuntu has had a GUI for changing settings such as DHCP/static IP for as long as I can remember. That the OP couldn't find the setting is, I guess, a problem, although it's not obvious to me where would be a better location than the "Network Connections" item on the "System" menu.
I don't know if you can get a 3g Tmobile phone unlocked.
That's the advantage of GSM - you don't need to get a "TMobile phone"; just get any old unlocked GSM phone, and put a TMobile SIM in it.
I have an unlocked GSM phone (which I bought in the UK, where it's pretty common for phones to be unlocked, even when they come free with a contract to a particular carrier), which I use with an AT&T SIM, and I can indeed tether it, although to actually do so would be a violation of my contract with AT&T - and I don't have an unlimited data plan, so, given their ludicrous 1c per Kb data rates, actually using it for any length of time would be absurdly expensive.
I have no idea why you think a PhD is a formal requirement for being a professor. Of course, most professors do have a PhD, but it's not completely unprecedented for people to be so obviously brilliant as undergraduates they get an academic post before doing a PhD and so, in time, become a professor without ever getting a doctorate; Quentin Skinner is an example.
The standard edition of Google Apps is free whether or not you buy your domain through Google. You could also use make use of the fact that using a plus sign, like username+somethingelse@myappdomain.com gets delivered to username@myappdomain.com, rather than explicitly setting up aliases for different sites, although perhaps at some point spammers will get wise to this and start extracting people's "real" email addresses from addresses of this form.
GNOME isn't "throwing it's current GUI paradigm out of the window for 3.x"; the slogan is "GNOME 3.0 = GNOME 2.30"; that is, more of an incremental improvement than a radical change. Indeed, the big target for GNOME 3.0 seems to be cleaning up the use of various deprecated parts of the API (like the bonobo component system). GNOME Shell, from your youtube link, is an interesting integration of the window manager and the window switcher, but I don't know that it counts as a completely new GUI paradigm.
It made me feel more like I was programming the game to play itself than actually playing it.
There's an element of truth to that, but I don't see why it would be a criticism. Why have a computer if you can't program it to do repetitive stuff for you? FFXII retains the fun part of the battles, viz, figuring out the best strategy, while minimizing the boring parts of implementing the strategy. What's not to like?
The relationship between the physical and the virtual isn't philosophically any simpler than the relationship between the mind and the body, though. If "the brain is hardware and the mind is software" is just a metaphorical way of making the distinction between physical and virtual clear, fine; but it's a mistake to think it tells us any more than that. The problem is, the terminology is likely to mislead us into thinking that the mind is like the kind of software that runs on computers, where in fact there may be no similarity between the two.
But surely analytic philosophy has been in retreat since Popper?
In the very narrow sense of analytic philosophy originally proposed by Russell, Moore, and the Logical Positivists, in which philosophy consists of the formal analysis of propositions, analytic philosophy has been dead for a long time, at least since Wittgenstein became the later Wittgenstein. Which is why, when people say "analytic philosophy," they usually mean something broader, a tradition of philosophy which descends from Russell and Moore and from later reactions to them. In this wider sense (in which Popper himself is an analytic philosopher), analytic philosophy is still the dominant approach to philosophy in the English-speaking world.
For some value of "readable," I suppose. But, on a 3.5in 420x380 display, a PDF with 10pt text on letter paper is going to either have tiny text or require a lot of cumbersome sideways scrolling.
PDF is a terrible format for ebooks. It's designed to instruct a printer how to draw on paper of a specifc, fixed size. An ebook format needs to deal with different screen sizes (possibly wildly different - I read ebooks on my 1280x800 laptop screen and my 177x220 phone screen) and different text sizes (my long-sighted father is going to want larger text in his ebooks than I do). PDF doesn't allow for the kind of reflow that a good ebook reader is going to employ.
The GP mentioned vim, ctags and the GNU toolchain, which allow you to do both of the things you mention. Vim and GDB can work together to show you the code while you step through it in the debugger, and vim and ctags can work together to do (context sensitive) function renaming. Vim/emacs + gcc + gdb _is_ an integrated development environment.
When radio stations pay the PRS, they're not paying for things they've already paid royalties for. The PRS is the organization that collects the royalities. The 117 million pounds collected by the PRS wasn't "for doing nothing"; it's paid to the songwriters for, you know, writing songs.
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I believe the version of Eclipse in Debian and Ubuntu is so far behind because the packagers haven't been able to produce a package of newer versions that runs using the GCJ native compiler, and they don't want to ship a version that uses the regular JVM. Why they would rather ship an ancient version of eclipse, than ship a java program that uses the JVM, I do not know.
But Apple didn't start from scratch - they started from Nextstep, Steve Jobs's earlier Unix GUI. Note that Nextstep isn't that much newer than X, and it shares some of the things that often get criticized in X, like the client-server architecture.
But the parent didn't say "every single player gets to define for themselves" the correct way to play. He said that players collectively get to define the correct way to play.
Yeah, it's a good thing everyone has been using valid XHTML since 1996; Google would just fall apart if it had to crawl non-valid HTML.
You've been told wrong. Making your HTML or XHTML valid does make for a more predictable browsing experience, and may even lower memory requirements. Writing HTML that looks a bit like XML (e.g., using self-closing tags) and then serving it as HTML is completely pointless.
Neither of these are unique features of XHTML. HTML is case insensitive, so you can use lower case tags if you wish, and XHTML 1 has exactly the same semantics as HTML 4.01, so XHTML and HTML are equally strict and separate content from structure to exactly the same extent.
Something that would make no use of CSS?
Given that CSS does this already, what's the advantage of adding another way of doing it without CSS?
I'm pretty sure there are dwarves in the Second Life sex shops.
Three or four years ago, you did have to right click on the CD icon to eject the CD, which my grandfather found rather confusing when I gave him my old computer; but the GNOME devs have long since added a more obvious GUI for ejecting CDs. Either click "File/Eject media" in the file manager window for the CD, or click the eject symbol next to the CD in the "Places" sidebar in the file manager. I assume KDE has something similar.
Linux on the desktop still does have problems, but X is not among them.
Plug in second monitor, select "System/Preferences/Display", set the resolutions and rotations on the two monitors, log out and log back in again, and you're done. What's the problem exactly?
That's just flat-out false, and I'm not sure where you would have got that idea from.
Yes, they did; it was called GLX, and has been available on Linux since 2000. DRI is based on this system, but allows you to avoid some overhead when the client and server are running on the same computer.
You know, I'm pretty sure that doesn't prevent him from also having opinions about possible changes to the law.
I may be wrong here, but my understanding is that you need to do significant editorial work, such as abridgement or re-organization, to a work in order to get a new copyright on it. I don't think that if I just, say, downloaded a book from Project Gutenburg and typeset it to produce a printed version, I would gain any copyright in this printed version.
Granted, I believe this dialog is quite a recent addition to the project; I'm quite sure it wasn't there a couple of months ago.
I thought NM had had a dialog for that for a while; certainly, Ubuntu has had a GUI for changing settings such as DHCP/static IP for as long as I can remember. That the OP couldn't find the setting is, I guess, a problem, although it's not obvious to me where would be a better location than the "Network Connections" item on the "System" menu.
I don't know if you can get a 3g Tmobile phone unlocked.
That's the advantage of GSM - you don't need to get a "TMobile phone"; just get any old unlocked GSM phone, and put a TMobile SIM in it.
I have an unlocked GSM phone (which I bought in the UK, where it's pretty common for phones to be unlocked, even when they come free with a contract to a particular carrier), which I use with an AT&T SIM, and I can indeed tether it, although to actually do so would be a violation of my contract with AT&T - and I don't have an unlimited data plan, so, given their ludicrous 1c per Kb data rates, actually using it for any length of time would be absurdly expensive.
I have no idea why you think a PhD is a formal requirement for being a professor. Of course, most professors do have a PhD, but it's not completely unprecedented for people to be so obviously brilliant as undergraduates they get an academic post before doing a PhD and so, in time, become a professor without ever getting a doctorate; Quentin Skinner is an example.
The standard edition of Google Apps is free whether or not you buy your domain through Google. You could also use make use of the fact that using a plus sign, like username+somethingelse@myappdomain.com gets delivered to username@myappdomain.com, rather than explicitly setting up aliases for different sites, although perhaps at some point spammers will get wise to this and start extracting people's "real" email addresses from addresses of this form.
GNOME isn't "throwing it's current GUI paradigm out of the window for 3.x"; the slogan is "GNOME 3.0 = GNOME 2.30"; that is, more of an incremental improvement than a radical change. Indeed, the big target for GNOME 3.0 seems to be cleaning up the use of various deprecated parts of the API (like the bonobo component system). GNOME Shell, from your youtube link, is an interesting integration of the window manager and the window switcher, but I don't know that it counts as a completely new GUI paradigm.
It made me feel more like I was programming the game to play itself than actually playing it.
There's an element of truth to that, but I don't see why it would be a criticism. Why have a computer if you can't program it to do repetitive stuff for you? FFXII retains the fun part of the battles, viz, figuring out the best strategy, while minimizing the boring parts of implementing the strategy. What's not to like?
The relationship between the physical and the virtual isn't philosophically any simpler than the relationship between the mind and the body, though. If "the brain is hardware and the mind is software" is just a metaphorical way of making the distinction between physical and virtual clear, fine; but it's a mistake to think it tells us any more than that. The problem is, the terminology is likely to mislead us into thinking that the mind is like the kind of software that runs on computers, where in fact there may be no similarity between the two.
But surely analytic philosophy has been in retreat since Popper?
In the very narrow sense of analytic philosophy originally proposed by Russell, Moore, and the Logical Positivists, in which philosophy consists of the formal analysis of propositions, analytic philosophy has been dead for a long time, at least since Wittgenstein became the later Wittgenstein. Which is why, when people say "analytic philosophy," they usually mean something broader, a tradition of philosophy which descends from Russell and Moore and from later reactions to them. In this wider sense (in which Popper himself is an analytic philosopher), analytic philosophy is still the dominant approach to philosophy in the English-speaking world.
For some value of "readable," I suppose. But, on a 3.5in 420x380 display, a PDF with 10pt text on letter paper is going to either have tiny text or require a lot of cumbersome sideways scrolling.
PDF is a terrible format for ebooks. It's designed to instruct a printer how to draw on paper of a specifc, fixed size. An ebook format needs to deal with different screen sizes (possibly wildly different - I read ebooks on my 1280x800 laptop screen and my 177x220 phone screen) and different text sizes (my long-sighted father is going to want larger text in his ebooks than I do). PDF doesn't allow for the kind of reflow that a good ebook reader is going to employ.
The GP mentioned vim, ctags and the GNU toolchain, which allow you to do both of the things you mention. Vim and GDB can work together to show you the code while you step through it in the debugger, and vim and ctags can work together to do (context sensitive) function renaming. Vim/emacs + gcc + gdb _is_ an integrated development environment.
Emacs and vi do both support something very like this via ctags.
When radio stations pay the PRS, they're not paying for things they've already paid royalties for. The PRS is the organization that collects the royalities. The 117 million pounds collected by the PRS wasn't "for doing nothing"; it's paid to the songwriters for, you know, writing songs.