I believe what the grandparent was (attempting) to comment on was that the report states that NASA should try to follow the X-Prize model in places, not use the X-Prize rockets themselves.
The report claims that such prizes and bounties for specific pieces of the exploration pie will energize the industry and provide some good tech, to boot.
I'm not sure of the reasons behind that, but what if its due to the inefficiencies of the process, and the fact that recyclable goods are still a somewhat "niche" product?
If everything was recyclable and recycled, the costs of such a thing would come down, and the process would become more efficient. It would have to.
"Do you really think that any of the major PC makers will be willing to risk incurring the wrath of Microsoft?"
I hope so. If not, the Microsoft trial was of no use.
"Is "Favorites" really a Windows folder or is it an IE folder?"
It's a Windows folder. It's prominently displayed on the Start menu, it remains after you've turned off everything IE, it's located in your home folder, and all the links open in your default browser.
The key to Mozilla is obviously to get it packaged by default by computer manufacturers. I haven't seen this happen (on a Dell and an IBM).
What will it take? I'd say it's not ready for that leap until it integrates fully with the environment. An example being when it transparently uses Windows' Favorites folder and such. And I don't mean "Imported Internet Explorer Favorites" in the Bookmarks menu, I mean seamlessly.
I don't get how this is a legal position. In their EULAs, they say you can make a copy of the disc for backup purposes. Then, they implement a copyright protection scheme that makes it illegal (in the U.S.) to make such copies.
Perhaps they should be held to their side of the EULA, just like the users of the software? Or maybe they should have to put a "copyright-protected" notice on the box.
I just submitted my story about Mechwarrior I. It's of historical value, is not being sold anymore, the only place to find it is on abandonware sites, and Activision told me that they're reserving all rights to it for some nebulous "compilation" sometime in the future.
Yeah, because I read every line of code in every piece of software I install, just to make sure nothing gets in that I don't want.
Let's be real. He has good reason to trust the company about security information, and they have good reason to present accurate information. If the software fails and he gets hacked, they company loses business at best, gets bad publicity and a nasty lawsuit at worst.
You act like people wanting easy solutions is a negative thing. Not everyone is a security expert. That's why we have security experts. Specialization is the key to progress. The less time we spend worrying about things we don't care about, the more time we can spend on things we do.
My complaint about spatial Nautilus (and I'm not sure if this behavior can be changed) is that there's so way to easily display all files (including.files).
To do that, I need to go to the menu > Desktop Preferences > File Management > "Show hidden and backup files".
A View menu command would be much simpler, would make perfect sense, and would let me attach a keyboard shortcut to it.
Steam has nothing to do with the graphics engine, and everything to do with networking. It's Valve's content distribution and matchmaking framework. Click me.
With the source out, potential cheaters have the means to create hacks before the game even comes out.
They're probably (they'd better be) delaying to refactor things so that anything gleaned from the leaked code won't be useful when the game is released.
Yes, this was a real concept. Last I heard (last summer) it got overlooked in the competition for the next rover, but some of the engineers are trying to keep the design going in their spare time.
You don't perform Windows Updates? Now that's just asinine. Do you also run a three-year-old version of openssl on your Linux box?
Bugs happen. Simply because you willingly decide not to install a packaged, delivered fix for those bugs does not let you complain about bad things that happen because of them.
I don't get this. Both GNOME and KDE consist of many small apps that do their specific piece. Both consist of a window manager (Metacity and KWM, respectively) that does exactly that: manage windows, and nothing more. In fact, if you've followed the flames, you'll realize that at least with Metacity, most of the reason it's not well-liked is because it's too simple.
Not to start a flame war here, but you probably shouldn't have included emacs in this post. The contention that emacs does one thing (edits files) is simply incorrect.
The point is that not every app people claim upholds the ideals of Unix actually does.
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I believe what the grandparent was (attempting) to comment on was that the report states that NASA should try to follow the X-Prize model in places, not use the X-Prize rockets themselves.
The report claims that such prizes and bounties for specific pieces of the exploration pie will energize the industry and provide some good tech, to boot.
Yes, you're absolutely right. If you want a CSS-only site that keeps everything tight, you must use absolute sizes somewhere, and that sucks.
The min-width and max-width declarations help, but they're not supported in everyone's favorite browser.
Does anyone know if CSS3 has anything in it that helps this situation?
I'm not sure of the reasons behind that, but what if its due to the inefficiencies of the process, and the fact that recyclable goods are still a somewhat "niche" product?
If everything was recyclable and recycled, the costs of such a thing would come down, and the process would become more efficient. It would have to.
Like Star Wars Galaxies? Is Win4Lin fast enough for that? It doesn't work with WINE[x].
"Do you really think that any of the major PC makers will be willing to risk incurring the wrath of Microsoft?"
I hope so. If not, the Microsoft trial was of no use.
"Is "Favorites" really a Windows folder or is it an IE folder?"
It's a Windows folder. It's prominently displayed on the Start menu, it remains after you've turned off everything IE, it's located in your home folder, and all the links open in your default browser.
No, the innovation they're stifling is that of the Web. See http://webstandards.org/opinion/.
The key to Mozilla is obviously to get it packaged by default by computer manufacturers. I haven't seen this happen (on a Dell and an IBM).
What will it take? I'd say it's not ready for that leap until it integrates fully with the environment. An example being when it transparently uses Windows' Favorites folder and such. And I don't mean "Imported Internet Explorer Favorites" in the Bookmarks menu, I mean seamlessly.
I don't get how this is a legal position. In their EULAs, they say you can make a copy of the disc for backup purposes. Then, they implement a copyright protection scheme that makes it illegal (in the U.S.) to make such copies.
Perhaps they should be held to their side of the EULA, just like the users of the software? Or maybe they should have to put a "copyright-protected" notice on the box.
Um, the Supreme Court did look at this, and they said that yeah, lifespan + 70 years is "limited". Because it is not infinite, it is limited.
I just submitted my story about Mechwarrior I. It's of historical value, is not being sold anymore, the only place to find it is on abandonware sites, and Activision told me that they're reserving all rights to it for some nebulous "compilation" sometime in the future.
We are standardizing. Theora is the new standard.
Yeah, because I read every line of code in every piece of software I install, just to make sure nothing gets in that I don't want.
Let's be real. He has good reason to trust the company about security information, and they have good reason to present accurate information. If the software fails and he gets hacked, they company loses business at best, gets bad publicity and a nasty lawsuit at worst.
You act like people wanting easy solutions is a negative thing. Not everyone is a security expert. That's why we have security experts. Specialization is the key to progress. The less time we spend worrying about things we don't care about, the more time we can spend on things we do.
My complaint about spatial Nautilus (and I'm not sure if this behavior can be changed) is that there's so way to easily display all files (including .files).
To do that, I need to go to the menu > Desktop Preferences > File Management > "Show hidden and backup files".
A View menu command would be much simpler, would make perfect sense, and would let me attach a keyboard shortcut to it.
Steam has nothing to do with the graphics engine, and everything to do with networking. It's Valve's content distribution and matchmaking framework. Click me.
With the source out, potential cheaters have the means to create hacks before the game even comes out.
They're probably (they'd better be) delaying to refactor things so that anything gleaned from the leaked code won't be useful when the game is released.
Not all of Xandros' OS is GPL. The file manager, for example, is closed-source.
Yeah, you can access that stuff. It has read and resize support for NTFS. You just can't write to it, like every other Linux distro out there.
My assumption is that it's supposed to be better because it's integrated and automatic. But it is on other distros too, so whatever.
The CD burning is done through Xandros File Manager, which is not open-source.
I believe it had licensing restrictions, thought don't hold me to that.
Just because the last update to the list was in November 2003 doesn't mean there haven't been any vulnerabilities found since then.
In fact, I would look at this lack of updates as a negative. They should be posted when they're discovered, not in monthly increments.
If this were Microsoft, we'd be accusing them of cover-ups and only posting news once they were fixed.
Luckily, in this case, we have Bugzilla, which makes this point somewhat moot. They should still update that page, though.
Yes, this was a real concept. Last I heard (last summer) it got overlooked in the competition for the next rover, but some of the engineers are trying to keep the design going in their spare time.
You don't perform Windows Updates? Now that's just asinine. Do you also run a three-year-old version of openssl on your Linux box?
Bugs happen. Simply because you willingly decide not to install a packaged, delivered fix for those bugs does not let you complain about bad things that happen because of them.
I don't get this. Both GNOME and KDE consist of many small apps that do their specific piece. Both consist of a window manager (Metacity and KWM, respectively) that does exactly that: manage windows, and nothing more. In fact, if you've followed the flames, you'll realize that at least with Metacity, most of the reason it's not well-liked is because it's too simple.
Not to start a flame war here, but you probably shouldn't have included emacs in this post. The contention that emacs does one thing (edits files) is simply incorrect.
The point is that not every app people claim upholds the ideals of Unix actually does.
I run jEdit on WinXP with the latest non-beta JRE on a P4-3.06 GHz system w/ 512 RAM, and it's much slower than it should be.
Could be jEdit's fault, but I associate it (like many would) with the fact that it's Java.