that's what I get for posting to slashdot while I'm on the phone. To finish my thought -the reason why is very simple. Piss fucking simple: COMPATIBILITY
They seem to come and go in batches. About once or twice a month in 2007 I'd get mod points, then not at all in 2008 and I figured my run was over. For the last three months I'm getting them so frequently it seems like the pool of available moderators must have shrunk pretty dramatically.
tl;dr fuck alone knows what detirmines if you get mod points, if you had them before you'll probably have them again.
May not have been written with that intent, but it's serving that purpose rather nicely so far!
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English
Noun
Singular feature creep
Plural uncountable
feature creep (uncountable)
1. The tendency of a design project or product cycle to accumulate more and more features or details, rather than to be completed and released at a more basic level.
Actually, looking at what they do with IE8, I think that you're almost right. To be accurate, what (IMO) is most likely is that when you install 7 you'll get a dialog box that says something like:
Please set up your browser experience: 1)Express setup (use default settings for browser, email and blogging) 2)Custom setup (choose your custom applications for web, search, blogging, email, messaging, help, tags and a variety of other confusing minutae that you really don't want to spend 45 minutes going through.
They'll make option 2 intimidating and a total PITA that most people will pick option 1 (which, of course, installs ie8.)
They can cut off the project's oxygen pretty easily, actually. Most of the project's ecosystem consists of sun-sponsored resources (websites, source code repositories, they also host the mailing lists) and since Oracle will be purchasing Sun's rights they can easily revoke the rights to the binary-only blobs that are required to build a complete and bootable copy of the source tree (if you can't build it, you can't run it -can you?).
Oracle is in a great posistion to kill off Solaris. Considerting that there's little interest or expertise outside of Sun that would be able (much less willing) to maintain Solaris all they'd really have to do is shut down the projects resources and assign the people working on solaris to other projects.
It's sad that Solaris never really took off as a truly free Unix, but it didn't, and now it never will.
Because we've seen that the RIAA will go after your family if they don't think they can get any money out of you; regardless of whether or not any of you even own a computer!
Yahoo's closing it's various services (photos, briefcase) taught me better than to use a third party service as a backup for anything important.
To answer the original question, I don't "sync" -if you're running different Linux distributions and/or Windows versions you tend to have botched settings if you try to (eg importing my gnome settings and desktop into opensuse. fun.). If I feel esp attatched to a specific configuration I tar it onto an external hard drive.
Then again, I only have two computers, not a network or anything equally silly.
I disagree, I think MS anticipated that and is using the Windows 7 release candidates to generate positive word of mouth -and if the forum posts I've read are any indication, it's probably going to work out pretty well for them. Most of the people I've seen say anything good about it have been non-IT types.
If they screw up the pricing (which seems likely) then they'll end up losing ground (probably to MacOS). I think if people end up skipping Windows 7 it will be because of price, not because of the OS itself (I'm running it instead of Vista on my desktop and laptop -it's nicer but I don't know if it's $300 worth of nicer).
Does Microsoft realizes that nobody in their right mind is going to immediately switch to Win7 (if at all?)
What are you basing that off of? I've heard nothing but good things about Win7 (except in Linux circles, and even there I've seen positive reviews) and I haven't heard anyone say that they're going to skip it.
Most people I've read have said the opposite, that they're skipping Vista in favor of waiting for Windows 7.
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And I'm gonna guess it was probably the same compiler...gcc.
Google was so fucked that a lot of pages that had Google ads, or Google Analytics were slow to load or not loading at all.
Which is different from business as usual how, exactly? There's a reason googleanalytics has a place in my adblock file (and I'm far from alone in that).
Thanks to having an OEM string in my bios, I'm able to install Vista onto both of my computers, even though I only have a disk for one (the other came with a recovery partition that was eaten by Solaris).
Done it a million times, never had to activate once.
16,785,531 registered users is not even remotely the same as 16,785,531 active players. That only means that 16 million accounts have been created. Nothing else.
The number of people who are actively playing SL is much, much lower -and is decreasing every day.
>OpenBSD is essentially proprietary as they charge for CDs (IIRC), so I just avoid that. You're a moron. You can get the source to OpenBSD from their ftp site (pub/OpenBSD/$RELEASE), as well as a boot cd that includes everything you need to install it, minus third-party packages (pub/OpenBSD/$RELEASE/$ARCH/install$RELEASE.iso).
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Of course it will be zero. This is the mafiaa; what else would it be?
unless there's a way to use wildcards with /etc/hosts, then the solution is adblock.
that's what I get for posting to slashdot while I'm on the phone.
To finish my thought -the reason why is very simple.
Piss fucking simple:
COMPATIBILITY
...Windows?
They seem to come and go in batches. About once or twice a month in 2007 I'd get mod points, then not at all in 2008 and I figured my run was over. For the last three months I'm getting them so frequently it seems like the pool of available moderators must have shrunk pretty dramatically.
tl;dr fuck alone knows what detirmines if you get mod points, if you had them before you'll probably have them again.
Or I can, ya know, get things done faster by using GUI configuration tools that don't suck.
THAT would require a Windows Server, however.....
May not have been written with that intent, but it's serving that purpose rather nicely so far!
feature creep
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary
Jump to: navigation, search
English
Noun
Singular
feature creep
Plural
uncountable
feature creep (uncountable)
1. The tendency of a design project or product cycle to accumulate more and more features or details, rather than to be completed and released at a more basic level.
Examples: Emacs
[edit] Synonyms
* creeping elegance
If you expect the law to apply to corporate entities that posses huge lobbying power -then I'd say there's no 'maybe' about it.
Actually, looking at what they do with IE8, I think that you're almost right. To be accurate, what (IMO) is most likely is that when you install 7 you'll get a dialog box that says something like:
They'll make option 2 intimidating and a total PITA that most people will pick option 1 (which, of course, installs ie8.)
That's MS for you ...always ripping off Apple.
They can cut off the project's oxygen pretty easily, actually. Most of the project's ecosystem consists of sun-sponsored resources (websites, source code repositories, they also host the mailing lists) and since Oracle will be purchasing Sun's rights they can easily revoke the rights to the binary-only blobs that are required to build a complete and bootable copy of the source tree (if you can't build it, you can't run it -can you?).
Oracle is in a great posistion to kill off Solaris. Considerting that there's little interest or expertise outside of Sun that would be able (much less willing) to maintain Solaris all they'd really have to do is shut down the projects resources and assign the people working on solaris to other projects.
It's sad that Solaris never really took off as a truly free Unix, but it didn't, and now it never will.
I, for one, welcome our new allofinternetradio.ru overlords.
Because we've seen that the RIAA will go after your family if they don't think they can get any money out of you; regardless of whether or not any of you even own a computer!
Yahoo's closing it's various services (photos, briefcase) taught me better than to use a third party service as a backup for anything important.
To answer the original question, I don't "sync" -if you're running different Linux distributions and/or Windows versions you tend to have botched settings if you try to (eg importing my gnome settings and desktop into opensuse. fun.). If I feel esp attatched to a specific configuration I tar it onto an external hard drive.
Then again, I only have two computers, not a network or anything equally silly.
I disagree, I think MS anticipated that and is using the Windows 7 release candidates to generate positive word of mouth -and if the forum posts I've read are any indication, it's probably going to work out pretty well for them. Most of the people I've seen say anything good about it have been non-IT types.
If they screw up the pricing (which seems likely) then they'll end up losing ground (probably to MacOS). I think if people end up skipping Windows 7 it will be because of price, not because of the OS itself (I'm running it instead of Vista on my desktop and laptop -it's nicer but I don't know if it's $300 worth of nicer).
What are you basing that off of? I've heard nothing but good things about Win7 (except in Linux circles, and even there I've seen positive reviews) and I haven't heard anyone say that they're going to skip it.
Most people I've read have said the opposite, that they're skipping Vista in favor of waiting for Windows 7.
And I'm gonna guess it was probably the same compiler ...gcc.
What Unix taketh away, GNU giveth back.
idk, because you're not always connected to the internet?
because possession is 9/10ths of ownership (if it's not, it should be).
Which is different from business as usual how, exactly? There's a reason googleanalytics has a place in my adblock file (and I'm far from alone in that).
Thanks to having an OEM string in my bios, I'm able to install Vista onto both of my computers, even though I only have a disk for one (the other came with a recovery partition that was eaten by Solaris).
Done it a million times, never had to activate once.
16,785,531 registered users is not even remotely the same as 16,785,531 active players. That only means that 16 million accounts have been created. Nothing else.
The number of people who are actively playing SL is much, much lower -and is decreasing every day.
...ment.
>OpenBSD is essentially proprietary as they charge for CDs (IIRC), so I just avoid that.
You're a moron. You can get the source to OpenBSD from their ftp site (pub/OpenBSD/$RELEASE), as well as a boot cd that includes everything you need to install it, minus third-party packages (pub/OpenBSD/$RELEASE/$ARCH/install$RELEASE.iso).