TFA doesn't mention exactly _what_ will be included in the standard.
will standardize around one single desktop manager in detriment of the other ?
i hope so. and before you flame me, let me explain why: look and feel.
if KDE and gnome agreed around a common layout for things like file selector and other more used dialogs, i wouldn't mind. but that's not the case. gnome's dialogs are completelly diferent than KDE's, wich is a real pain sometimes.
other thing i'd like to see implemented as a standard: printing.
mozilla suite have it's own printing dialog that can't detect printers without xprint, wich have to be manually configured (ie, change a config file) to match the printer's default resolution or it will print out of scale pages. GIMP also have it's own, uber complicated, print dialog which looks like nothing that exists for KDE...
well, i can handle all of this, but can i say the same of my mother ??? _HECK NO!!!_ and i'm sure most of the potential photoshop users wouldn't want to deal with all those "choices" either.
choice is good, for the ones who want, or like, it. for everyone else, standards.
i work as a solaris admin and i make no more than US$ 10.000 a _YEAR_ here in brasil.
a windows XP Pro here costs about R$900, which is almost what i make in a month. 10 windows licenses plus office (which costs more tha windows) plus an administrator, and you'll see that the cost of software represents almost 75% of the total.
"If you honestly think that companies have the time and money to track things to that ability, you are crazy. It would cost them *millions*, and benefit them zero. They would be fighting tooth and nail against any request by the government to do that."
they _DO_ have the ability, the time, the money, the alphaserver clusters... and they _DO_ keep track.
i worked in a company (big, multinational one) that sells a very popular line of products (i'm beeing vague to pretect the guilty as well as the innocent) in thousands of stores all accross my country. is a perishable product, so they sell small ammounts every day or week to the same stores. the product is manufactured and delivered in a just-in-time fashion.
well, they keep _YEARS_ of records of who-bought-what-when. the orders are entered in PDAs, synced with the corporate CRM system, the product is manufactured overnight and shiped by the morning. the PDAs also receive by the morning a buying history of that salesperson costumers, with sugestion of products based on _YEARS_ of transactions.
all of this gives the company an edge over the competition, with could mean millions in sales. enough to pay for the clustered alphas and the (expensive) CRM.
such things arent new. my grandmother had a GE refrigerator bought in the early 70's that was still working by early 90's. well, one day i was moving some old stuff to the basement and found a _punch card_ pre-punched with the fridge's serial number and some fields to fill in name, address and other stuff for registration. so i guess GE has not only years of records, but _DECADES_. and with data-mining technologies, they can certainly make good use of all these data.
BTW, no i _didn't_ mail the punch card. i know i should have, but i didn't (>.>)
in 2 to 10 years lots of things will happen. some people will die, some will be born...
aw, c'mon...
in a month europe, brasil and a few other nations will force a global netsplit, so we'll have 2 "internets". double the address space for the same price, so this prediction is not only imprecise, it's useless!
configure firefox/mozilla to only accept cookies to the originating website only.
with this feature on, if you point the browser to, say, slashdot.org and said site tries to read/issue a cookie in behalf of doubleclick.net it will be refused.
or set them to turn all cookies in session cookies, so they'll be automatically trashed as soon you close the browser.
at home i have mozilla set up to ask me everytime. and usually i only authorize for sites i usually login, like/., gmail, etc...
ok, it takes in excess of 4000C to ignite it, but with the heat those things are putting out i believe they'll soon have to recall the notebooks and replace the titanium by asbestos or ceramic compounds...
theres alcohol. millions use it everyday in their cars here in brasil.
embraer already sells an alcohol fueled piston prop plane for use in agriculture.
it can be used in jet engines too. of course, alcohol packs less energy per kilogram than kerosene, but in the lack of fossil fuels its a good alternative.
according to ESR theres 2 kinds of Unix: the "genetic unixes" derived from the origninal AT&T code (wich include all BSD variants such as apples darwin) and the "trademark unixes", the ones not neccessarily derived from the AT&T or BSD code but that passed an opengroup certification.
macos x is a genetic unix, so the generical term "unix" applies. GNU/Linux is nor genetical nor trademark, so its usualy refered as a "unix like" OS.
soyuz is a passenger craft. it only lifts and brings back {astro|cosmo|space}nauts. the russian suply ship is called "proges".
progres is fully automated and besides lifting suplies it also serves as storage room and trash disposal vehicle. the ship itself is disposable, it burns on reentry with the junk and trash produced by the station.
in case of emergency, they can release the soyuz thats always docked at the station as a lifeboat. the soyuz can take 3 crewmembers back, leaving 6 behind to be picked up by an emergency soyuz launch. alternativelly they could launch a progres with suplies before sending a rescue mission.
the nicest thing about the russian ships is that both soyuz and progress (their ill fated space shutle buran also had this) are capable of fully automated missions, while the american shutles cant fly unmaned.
japan accepts brasilian imigrants as long as theyre descendents of japanese.
brasil has a very large japanese community, and recently many of the young generation made their way back to japan to work for a few years before comming back.
ethanol (AKA alcohol) doesnt take more energy than it produces to make.
1- crush sugar cane 2- burn the pulp leftp to produce steam power to drive the crusher 3- ferment sugar cane dip 4- distil the result of fermenatation using whatever is left from the pulp to heat the distiler 5- let the next sugar cane crop capture the carbon spilt in the atmosphere 6-... 7- PROFIT!!!
this business model is what drives a considerable part of brasilian cars. my next car will sure be flex fuel, so i can choose between more power (with alcohol) or more autonomy (gasoline).
now, methanol i agree takes more power to produce than what it gives back when you burn it inside an engine
GNU/Linux is pretty well served in terms of LDAP tools and applications. thanks for asking.
now, someone please mod parent "-1 troll"
let me explain something about longhorn...
on
Longhorn Beta Begins
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
here in brasil (and maybe other latin countries like italy too) is said that a man cheated by his wife or girlfriend has "horns". so what makes microsoft think that i'll want "long horns" ???
Slashdot Mirror
at livejournal.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/opportunitygrrl/
and
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spiritrover/
that you'll never be caught.
good movies either:
- are not from hollywood;
- don't make them enough money to justify action;
- all of the above.
so go ahead and download your good movies at will.
" I mean... they could find somebody dull enough to believe the Onion was actually a real presidential announcement."
someone like this one???
the same applies to photoshop. it's for professionals.
and i just mentioned autocad as an example of integration between CLI and GUI.
what you want is autocad.
a CLI with graphical interaction.
in autocad you can type a command to draw a line, then pick the starting and ending point in the drawing with the mouse.
some newer BIOSes allow you to upgrade from the BIOS setup already. you can even load the new code from an usb stick
TFA doesn't mention exactly _what_ will be included in the standard.
will standardize around one single desktop manager in detriment of the other ?
i hope so. and before you flame me, let me explain why: look and feel.
if KDE and gnome agreed around a common layout for things like file selector and other more used dialogs, i wouldn't mind. but that's not the case. gnome's dialogs are completelly diferent than KDE's, wich is a real pain sometimes.
other thing i'd like to see implemented as a standard: printing.
mozilla suite have it's own printing dialog that can't detect printers without xprint, wich have to be manually configured (ie, change a config file) to match the printer's default resolution or it will print out of scale pages. GIMP also have it's own, uber complicated, print dialog which looks like nothing that exists for KDE...
well, i can handle all of this, but can i say the same of my mother ??? _HECK NO!!!_ and i'm sure most of the potential photoshop users wouldn't want to deal with all those "choices" either.
choice is good, for the ones who want, or like, it. for everyone else, standards.
that's why things like debian and slackaware exists.
"distros for the rest of us" i call them, with apologies to frank constanza...
i back this up.
i work as a solaris admin and i make no more than US$ 10.000 a _YEAR_ here in brasil.
a windows XP Pro here costs about R$900, which is almost what i make in a month. 10 windows licenses plus office (which costs more tha windows) plus an administrator, and you'll see that the cost of software represents almost 75% of the total.
see why piracy is rampant here ???
"If you honestly think that companies have the time and money to track things to that ability, you are crazy. It would cost them *millions*, and benefit them zero. They would be fighting tooth and nail against any request by the government to do that."
they _DO_ have the ability, the time, the money, the alphaserver clusters... and they _DO_ keep track.
i worked in a company (big, multinational one) that sells a very popular line of products (i'm beeing vague to pretect the guilty as well as the innocent) in thousands of stores all accross my country. is a perishable product, so they sell small ammounts every day or week to the same stores. the product is manufactured and delivered in a just-in-time fashion.
well, they keep _YEARS_ of records of who-bought-what-when. the orders are entered in PDAs, synced with the corporate CRM system, the product is manufactured overnight and shiped by the morning. the PDAs also receive by the morning a buying history of that salesperson costumers, with sugestion of products based on _YEARS_ of transactions.
all of this gives the company an edge over the competition, with could mean millions in sales. enough to pay for the clustered alphas and the (expensive) CRM.
such things arent new. my grandmother had a GE refrigerator bought in the early 70's that was still working by early 90's. well, one day i was moving some old stuff to the basement and found a _punch card_ pre-punched with the fridge's serial number and some fields to fill in name, address and other stuff for registration. so i guess GE has not only years of records, but _DECADES_. and with data-mining technologies, they can certainly make good use of all these data.
BTW, no i _didn't_ mail the punch card. i know i should have, but i didn't (>.>)
in 2 to 10 years lots of things will happen. some people will die, some will be born...
aw, c'mon...
in a month europe, brasil and a few other nations will force a global netsplit, so we'll have 2 "internets". double the address space for the same price, so this prediction is not only imprecise, it's useless!
my R$0,02.
Microsoft BOB Player!!!
configure firefox/mozilla to only accept cookies to the originating website only.
/., gmail, etc...
with this feature on, if you point the browser to, say, slashdot.org and said site tries to read/issue a cookie in behalf of doubleclick.net it will be refused.
or set them to turn all cookies in session cookies, so they'll be automatically trashed as soon you close the browser.
at home i have mozilla set up to ask me everytime. and usually i only authorize for sites i usually login, like
on yahoo music brasilian site... iPod shuffle...
they advertise a product that don't work with their service and also atracts consumers to ITMS. odd...
that titanium is flamable ???
ok, it takes in excess of 4000C to ignite it, but with the heat those things are putting out i believe they'll soon have to recall the notebooks and replace the titanium by asbestos or ceramic compounds...
theres alcohol. millions use it everyday in their cars here in brasil.
embraer already sells an alcohol fueled piston prop plane for use in agriculture.
it can be used in jet engines too. of course, alcohol packs less energy per kilogram than kerosene, but in the lack of fossil fuels its a good alternative.
why siberia's permafrost is melting @_@
pffff... daemon worshiper...
according to ESR theres 2 kinds of Unix: the "genetic unixes" derived from the origninal AT&T code (wich include all BSD variants such as apples darwin) and the "trademark unixes", the ones not neccessarily derived from the AT&T or BSD code but that passed an opengroup certification.
8 0
macos x is a genetic unix, so the generical term "unix" applies. GNU/Linux is nor genetical nor trademark, so its usualy refered as a "unix like" OS.
see here: http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html#id30871
soyuz is a passenger craft. it only lifts and brings back {astro|cosmo|space}nauts. the russian suply ship is called "proges".
progres is fully automated and besides lifting suplies it also serves as storage room and trash disposal vehicle. the ship itself is disposable, it burns on reentry with the junk and trash produced by the station.
in case of emergency, they can release the soyuz thats always docked at the station as a lifeboat. the soyuz can take 3 crewmembers back, leaving 6 behind to be picked up by an emergency soyuz launch. alternativelly they could launch a progres with suplies before sending a rescue mission.
the nicest thing about the russian ships is that both soyuz and progress (their ill fated space shutle buran also had this) are capable of fully automated missions, while the american shutles cant fly unmaned.
japan accepts brasilian imigrants as long as theyre descendents of japanese.
brasil has a very large japanese community, and recently many of the young generation made their way back to japan to work for a few years before comming back.
we call these people "dekasegi"(sp?)
ethanol (AKA alcohol) doesnt take more energy than it produces to make.
...
1- crush sugar cane
2- burn the pulp leftp to produce steam power to drive the crusher
3- ferment sugar cane dip
4- distil the result of fermenatation using whatever is left from the pulp to heat the distiler
5- let the next sugar cane crop capture the carbon spilt in the atmosphere
6-
7- PROFIT!!!
this business model is what drives a considerable part of brasilian cars. my next car will sure be flex fuel, so i can choose between more power (with alcohol) or more autonomy (gasoline).
now, methanol i agree takes more power to produce than what it gives back when you burn it inside an engine
according to SCO it costs $699
GNU/Linux is pretty well served in terms of LDAP tools and applications. thanks for asking.
now, someone please mod parent "-1 troll"
here in brasil (and maybe other latin countries like italy too) is said that a man cheated by his wife or girlfriend has "horns". so what makes microsoft think that i'll want "long horns" ???