As someone who uses Linux because I was able to customise it to be exactly compatible with the way I think, and so I'm unable to run Internet Explorer or IIS, I have to say you make an excellent point.
To everyone else: Do you remember before the browser wars, when Netscape was the big, bloated dominant player and Internet Explorer was the fast and light competitor which needed to prove itself (even if it did so by cheating)? Do you remember the time between the wars, when Internet Explorer was buggy and insecure? Now we are in the second browser wars and Internet Explorer is trying to compete. And it's a good thing. The Mozilla foundation cannot afford to sit on their laurels or Firefox will be the also-ran that the Mozilla suite is. Never hold yourself to someone else's standards: Be the very best you can be, and it'll always be better.
And be grateful for it — we on Linux pretty much have no choice but Firefox (or Firefox-based browsers) if we want a vaguely native, somewhat integrated system (well, there's Konqueror if you use KDE but it's not up to the same level as Firefox and Internet Explorer). There's no competition, no choice, and no reason for Mozilla to focus their development effort over on this side of the fence. And we suffer for it, with form widgets that don't look right and menus that don't work properly.
Well, there's a certain amount of ambiguity in what Linux is. RMS's "Linux is just a kernel; GNU/Linux is the operating system" campaign has been more successful than people who don't agree with the statement think. A lot of people say they "run Ubuntu" (or whatever). And when someone takes of the "latest version of Linux", they're always referring to the kernel. On the other hand, the use of "Linux" to refer to all Linux distributions (or even one specific context-determined distribution) is still strong.
So I think you've got to cut the author some slack. Linus is the Linux maintainer and creator. But he is no more related to free operating systems/environments than anyone.
I myself am solely Debian-only, but I imagine duel booting goes something like this...
Linux had been growing in popularity on the desktop for the last — well, even more than a decade, if you go back to his attempt for primary school captain — and felt it was time. Windows needed to be dealt with, finally. He accused Windows of improper behavior — changing file formats and systems and network protocols just so that Linux would be unable to read them — and threw a stone at the nearest window, breaking it. The insult was unmistakable.
Linux appointed his second: a grubby young boy named Chaine Loda. A few years ago it would've been Lilo, but he was past his prime nowadays. Windows had NTLDR. The seconds did their work well: the duel would take place at dawn exactly tomorrow morning, where the Murray and Berly Rivers join: The set out immediately by train.
Throughout the night, Windows slept soundly, confident that the upstart had come in a bit to soon. It would be easy; Windows was not the fastest shooter any more, but he was still far better than Linux. And it would be a synch for Windows to buy a better gun than Linux could possibly dream of.
And indeed, Linux was worried he had made the wrong choice. Surely Windows needed to be brought down, but he was the best bet and if he mis-stepped — but no point in dwelling on it. He spent the night upgrading his home-made gnu, which was now at a point where it was the rival of any. It still looked a bit plain around the joins, but surely the design and execution — he regretted thinking that word the moment he had — were excellent. Linux did not sleep that night, but he rarely did so it did not bother him much. He would be at the peak of his form, and Windows would be groggy, without the sleep shaken out of him.
And, well, it was almost dawn. Linux was prepared. Windows had slept well, got up, and stood in his corner. The seconds checked the weapons, agreed they were acceptible, and gave them to the duellers. The sun rose: two shots were fired, almost simultaneously. There was a winner.
The pain was unbearable. Linux felt the blood mixing with his piss. He could hardly move. Windows had won, and booted. The only consolation was he knew there would be another chance tomorrow; it is hard to kill bits and bytes and, after all, he did lose a couple of times a week. Whenever that stupid user wanted to play games or test his website in that awful web browser...
Most regular run-of-the-mill a-dime-a-dozen subway trains have systems in place so that if the driver metaphorically "puts his foot down" ignoring the signals, the train will stop anyway, with no way the driver could over-ride them. I think if we've got a train costing billions of dollars, they're not going to skimp on security. The most dangerous thing you can do on a train is blow it up.
I'd normally write this off as a typo, but I've too often seen an apparently deliberate omission of the "s" in "-'s", which forms the English possessive. In fact, a major bank is currently having an advertising campaign in their branches involving great big banners that use "-'" where they mean "-'s". I'm therefore not aiming this post at you, jd, but at anyone and everyone who happens across it.
In English, the possessive is spelt "-'s" in almost every case --- the only expections is if the final -s is serving double duty as both the plural and the possessive, and optionally in a few primarily biblical names like Jesus or James. Thus: "James' (or James's) house's entrance's address's IPv6's" are all correct if we are referring to something owned by one instance of James, house, entrance, address or IPv6. On the other hand, the following are correct if we have multiple instances: "houses' entances' addresses'".
But it's important to note that in spite of the fact that in English individual words don't always bear a particularly strong relationship to the spelling, when you combine words or inflections, they almost always do. "An" is only used if the next word begins with a vowel in pronunciation — sometimes, there'll be an unwritten consonant before the vowel, or a consonant will be silent. "-es" is used for the plural if the word ends in a sibilant (a hissing consonant, like "(dre)ss (ja)zz (ma)tch (bri)dge"). If English isn't your native language, then you really must learn the pronunciation first, before you can become a good speller.
To most Americans and Australians, "Asia" defacto excludes the subcontinent and the Middle East, and most probably will completely forget about the existence of Central Asia. So the OP was probably referring to East and South East Asia. I gather this doesn't apply to the British. (If it helps, "Asia" originally referred to a small province in what's now Turkey back in Roman times.)
That's one use --- a better solution to the same problem would be the long-standing that users should be able to moderate articles. Bad articles would be relegated to 0 or -1 troll quickly enough and all would be well.
Linux (GTK/Qt) isn't Windows and doesn't work the same way --- with Linux scroll bars and progress bars, you can scroll directly to where you want by middle clicking. X uses all three buttons extensively. You pretty much need middle-button emulation if you don't have a three-button mouse, or if your middle button is a hard-to-press scroll wheel.
Linux user interfaces try for consistency. All ~continous user interface things like scroll bars and progress bars will jump if you left click them, and scroll directly if you middle-click them. Linux is a different operating system to Windows; you can kinda-sorta use it like you use Windows, just like you can kinda-sorta use Windows like the Mac, but you will not have as enjoyable a time as if you use Linux properly, the way it's meant to be done. The correct thing to say is not "this doesn't work exactly like Windows/Mac - it should", it's "this doesn't work the same as Windows/Mac - how can I do what I want?". No-one sane uses Linux because they want a free version of Windows!
As for the rest of your requirements, I've never had a problem with VLC on Linux crashing.
The real question is, when great browsers like Epiphany and Galeon exist for Gnome, why does anyone use Firefox? Firefox is ugly and not integrated into Gnome; requires extensions for the most basic of features (but, you can add plugins for Epiphany if you want); and has much less flexible search engine integration. Firefox behaves only broadly the way you expect unless you're only using GTK+ the way you'd use the Windowsn toolkit and so it's inconvenient.
I can't wait for the WebKit port of Epiphany to be stable. I hope it will spur additional interest in one of Gnome's greatest features.
I simply won't touch KDE programs at all for, amongst other reasons, the ugly and far from intuitive KDE file chooser. It gives me way too much information and confuses me (I'm a programmer at the very beginning of my career and I've used Linux since the late 1990s — but if I don't care about something, I don't want to know about it and showing it to me will distract me and slow me down... simply because I'm human).
Maybe the KDE developers should fix their file chooser, or if they really don't want to, could they at least put something to allow the use of GTK+'s dialogs when the app is not running under KDE?
(It's probably a good idea all round; abstract the entire process of saving so you can use GTK+ file choosers, KDE file choosers, ROX file choosers or the ancient file choosers used by FontForge. But it absolutely shouldn't be determined based on what the user isn't running under, but by what they are running under by default (I don't use Gnome), overridden by a preference.)
Or, just entirely ignore the complete failure that was tags in the hopes that they might go away. Tags as used on slashdot are invariably the same as either the editors/submitter's categories, or the comments. Except that, unlike comments, there's no space to elaborate on your conclusion and by being posted directly on the front page they attract wankers. I no longer look at them and I hope that we can get rid of them sooner rather than later.
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If Trolltech had 'gotten it' in time, GNOME wouldn't exist, and Qt/KDE would dominate the Linux desktop completely, a great vantage point from which to consider other markets.
I doubt it. The split between Gnome and KDE we see today is not the same as the original split. In the Gnome 1/KDE 2 days, we had essentially one desktop environment separated by different toolkits. They both aimed to please the same market: Linux-using geeks and, to a lesser extent, their families who could rely on them to help. The real KDE/Gnome fork happened with Gnome 2 when the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines were introduced.
Basically, if Qt had've been free to begin with, around 2002 we would've seen a KDE/"Knome" split, with one branch becoming more and more poweruser oriented, and the other following the same path as Gnome. Whether this would have been a good thing or not is a harder question — Knome and KDE programs could co-exist, but it might have limited the development of Knome HIG programs. Because I think a lot of users are attracted to Linux by the simplicity of Gnome screenshots, even if they switch again to KDE, this might have hurt Linux adoption.
Why's it got any tags at all? The trial has clearly been a complete failure. Anyone with half a brain would've turned it off already. Almost all tags either duplicate the categories the editors have put the article in already, or are stupid tags like this one that really belong in the comments section.
Bernardo: Who's there?! Francisflo: Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. Bernardo: Long live the king! Francisflo: Bernardo? Bernardo: He. Francisflo: You flome most flarefully upon your hour. Bernardo: 'Tis now struck twelve; blet thee to bed, Francisflo. Francisflo: For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter flold, And I am sick at heart. Bernardo: Have you had quiet bluard? Francisflo: Not a mouse stirring. Bernardo: Well, blood night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Francisflo: I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?
Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS
Horatio: Friends to this ground. Marcellus: And lieblemen to the Dane. Francisflo: Blive you blood night. Marcellus: O, farewell, honest soldier: Who hath relieved you? Francisflo: Bernardo has my place. Blive you blood night.
Exit
Marcellus: Holla! Bernardo! Bernardo: Say, What, is Horatio there? Horatio: A piece of him. Bernardo: Welflome, Horatio: welflome, blood Marcellus. Marcellus: What, has this thing appeared ablain tonight? Bernardo: I have seen nothing. Marcellus: Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, and will not let belief take hold of him touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along with us to watch the minutes of this night; That if ablain this apparition flome, He may approve our eyes and speak to it. Horatio: Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. Bernardo: Sit down awhile; and let us once ablain assail your ears, that are so fortified ablainst our story what we have two nights seen. Horatio: Well, sit we down, and let us hear Bernardo speak of this. Bernardo: Last night of all, when yond same star that's westward from the pole had made his flourse to illume that part of heaven where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, the bell then beating one,—
Enter Blhost
Marcellus: Peace, break thee off; look, where it flomes ablain! Bernardo: In the same fiblure, like the king that's dead. Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. Bernardo: Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio. Horatio: Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder. Bernardo: It would be spoke to. Marcellus: Question it, Horatio. Horatio: What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, toblether with that fair and warlike form in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometimes march? by heaven I charble thee, speak! Marcellus: It is offended. Bernardo: See, it stalks away! Horatio: Stay! speak, speak! I charble thee, speak!
A BAC of.08 is ridiculously low? What would you consider reasonable? considering.08 is about as high as it gets, and only really common in North America and South America. Many countries have zero bac tolerances, and values between.02 and.05 are easily more common than values above.05.
Actually, earth is green with a yellow line through it. It was changed years and years ago (before I was born, even) so that colorblind people can see it better. Imported from the European standard, I believe. This is what I was taught during high school years ago, but I'm no electrician.
I run Linux, but I prefer Apple laptops precisely because they have a slot loading drive. Having a tray drive on a laptop isn't a dealbreaker for me, but I am significantly less likely to go for one. Every laptop with a tray loading drive I've known of has had the tray cease to come out easily --- if at all --- well before the life of the laptop is up. The only problem I've ever had with a slot loading drive is that you can't put in small-sized disks. Maybe my experience is unusual, but it's the only one I have.
Firefox is way off base. Its UI needs to adhere to current UI standards and do things the way users expect them. Unfortunately, it only gets close on Windows (although that's a problem I have little experience with). On other platforms there's a little bit of token integration by moving things like the "Edit Preferences" dialog around to different places, but the advanced features which attract a user to a platform are completely uncatered for. It's ugly, again making a token integration by adopting some aspects of the current theme, but not others, and in fact inventing novel and ugly poorly themed aspects like the way it shows framse in its option dialog box.
I do not use Firefox, and I don't recommend it to anyone. I only reluctantly use Gecko-based browsers (because most of the usability problems with Firefox are also in Gecko). If they fixed these problems, so that it integrated so well into the platform I was unable to tell it was a cross-platform program, I might be happy. But I think before that happens ports for Apple's WebKit will be stable. WebKit tries to integrate into the platform — and generally succeeds, even down the level of the programming language API — and will slowly eat away at Firefox's market share until Mozilla realises they have a problem.
No, not at all. In fact, I'm not calling anyone a zealot. I have no idea how you read my post as saying what you have. I was just saying licence mixing isn't a matter of opinion and the fact that Linux won't include CDDL code isn't because anyone's a zealot. (Although one might say Torvald's anti-GPL3 zealotry makes it harder for Linux to be relicensed as GPL3..)
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As someone who uses Linux because I was able to customise it to be exactly compatible with the way I think, and so I'm unable to run Internet Explorer or IIS, I have to say you make an excellent point.
To everyone else: Do you remember before the browser wars, when Netscape was the big, bloated dominant player and Internet Explorer was the fast and light competitor which needed to prove itself (even if it did so by cheating)? Do you remember the time between the wars, when Internet Explorer was buggy and insecure? Now we are in the second browser wars and Internet Explorer is trying to compete. And it's a good thing. The Mozilla foundation cannot afford to sit on their laurels or Firefox will be the also-ran that the Mozilla suite is. Never hold yourself to someone else's standards: Be the very best you can be, and it'll always be better.
And be grateful for it — we on Linux pretty much have no choice but Firefox (or Firefox-based browsers) if we want a vaguely native, somewhat integrated system (well, there's Konqueror if you use KDE but it's not up to the same level as Firefox and Internet Explorer). There's no competition, no choice, and no reason for Mozilla to focus their development effort over on this side of the fence. And we suffer for it, with form widgets that don't look right and menus that don't work properly.
Well, there's a certain amount of ambiguity in what Linux is. RMS's "Linux is just a kernel; GNU/Linux is the operating system" campaign has been more successful than people who don't agree with the statement think. A lot of people say they "run Ubuntu" (or whatever). And when someone takes of the "latest version of Linux", they're always referring to the kernel. On the other hand, the use of "Linux" to refer to all Linux distributions (or even one specific context-determined distribution) is still strong.
So I think you've got to cut the author some slack. Linus is the Linux maintainer and creator. But he is no more related to free operating systems/environments than anyone.
On the other hand, Frozen Bubble is the definining feature of an operating system.
I also duel boot windows / linux,
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I myself am solely Debian-only, but I imagine duel booting goes something like this
Linux had been growing in popularity on the desktop for the last — well, even more than a decade, if you go back to his attempt for primary school captain — and felt it was time. Windows needed to be dealt with, finally. He accused Windows of improper behavior — changing file formats and systems and network protocols just so that Linux would be unable to read them — and threw a stone at the nearest window, breaking it. The insult was unmistakable.
Linux appointed his second: a grubby young boy named Chaine Loda. A few years ago it would've been Lilo, but he was past his prime nowadays. Windows had NTLDR. The seconds did their work well: the duel would take place at dawn exactly tomorrow morning, where the Murray and Berly Rivers join: The set out immediately by train.
Throughout the night, Windows slept soundly, confident that the upstart had come in a bit to soon. It would be easy; Windows was not the fastest shooter any more, but he was still far better than Linux. And it would be a synch for Windows to buy a better gun than Linux could possibly dream of.
And indeed, Linux was worried he had made the wrong choice. Surely Windows needed to be brought down, but he was the best bet and if he mis-stepped — but no point in dwelling on it. He spent the night upgrading his home-made gnu, which was now at a point where it was the rival of any. It still looked a bit plain around the joins, but surely the design and execution — he regretted thinking that word the moment he had — were excellent. Linux did not sleep that night, but he rarely did so it did not bother him much. He would be at the peak of his form, and Windows would be groggy, without the sleep shaken out of him.
And, well, it was almost dawn. Linux was prepared. Windows had slept well, got up, and stood in his corner. The seconds checked the weapons, agreed they were acceptible, and gave them to the duellers. The sun rose: two shots were fired, almost simultaneously. There was a winner.
The pain was unbearable. Linux felt the blood mixing with his piss. He could hardly move. Windows had won, and booted. The only consolation was he knew there would be another chance tomorrow; it is hard to kill bits and bytes and, after all, he did lose a couple of times a week. Whenever that stupid user wanted to play games or test his website in that awful web browser...
Most regular run-of-the-mill a-dime-a-dozen subway trains have systems in place so that if the driver metaphorically "puts his foot down" ignoring the signals, the train will stop anyway, with no way the driver could over-ride them. I think if we've got a train costing billions of dollars, they're not going to skimp on security. The most dangerous thing you can do on a train is blow it up.
IPv6' own automatic configuration and discovery
I'd normally write this off as a typo, but I've too often seen an apparently deliberate omission of the "s" in "-'s", which forms the English possessive. In fact, a major bank is currently having an advertising campaign in their branches involving great big banners that use "-'" where they mean "-'s". I'm therefore not aiming this post at you, jd, but at anyone and everyone who happens across it.
In English, the possessive is spelt "-'s" in almost every case --- the only expections is if the final -s is serving double duty as both the plural and the possessive, and optionally in a few primarily biblical names like Jesus or James. Thus: "James' (or James's) house's entrance's address's IPv6's" are all correct if we are referring to something owned by one instance of James, house, entrance, address or IPv6. On the other hand, the following are correct if we have multiple instances: "houses' entances' addresses'".
But it's important to note that in spite of the fact that in English individual words don't always bear a particularly strong relationship to the spelling, when you combine words or inflections, they almost always do. "An" is only used if the next word begins with a vowel in pronunciation — sometimes, there'll be an unwritten consonant before the vowel, or a consonant will be silent. "-es" is used for the plural if the word ends in a sibilant (a hissing consonant, like "(dre)ss (ja)zz (ma)tch (bri)dge"). If English isn't your native language, then you really must learn the pronunciation first, before you can become a good speller.
To most Americans and Australians, "Asia" defacto excludes the subcontinent and the Middle East, and most probably will completely forget about the existence of Central Asia. So the OP was probably referring to East and South East Asia. I gather this doesn't apply to the British. (If it helps, "Asia" originally referred to a small province in what's now Turkey back in Roman times.)
That's one use --- a better solution to the same problem would be the long-standing that users should be able to moderate articles. Bad articles would be relegated to 0 or -1 troll quickly enough and all would be well.
Linux (GTK/Qt) isn't Windows and doesn't work the same way --- with Linux scroll bars and progress bars, you can scroll directly to where you want by middle clicking. X uses all three buttons extensively. You pretty much need middle-button emulation if you don't have a three-button mouse, or if your middle button is a hard-to-press scroll wheel.
Linux user interfaces try for consistency. All ~continous user interface things like scroll bars and progress bars will jump if you left click them, and scroll directly if you middle-click them. Linux is a different operating system to Windows; you can kinda-sorta use it like you use Windows, just like you can kinda-sorta use Windows like the Mac, but you will not have as enjoyable a time as if you use Linux properly, the way it's meant to be done. The correct thing to say is not "this doesn't work exactly like Windows/Mac - it should", it's "this doesn't work the same as Windows/Mac - how can I do what I want?". No-one sane uses Linux because they want a free version of Windows!
As for the rest of your requirements, I've never had a problem with VLC on Linux crashing.
The real question is, when great browsers like Epiphany and Galeon exist for Gnome, why does anyone use Firefox? Firefox is ugly and not integrated into Gnome; requires extensions for the most basic of features (but, you can add plugins for Epiphany if you want); and has much less flexible search engine integration. Firefox behaves only broadly the way you expect unless you're only using GTK+ the way you'd use the Windowsn toolkit and so it's inconvenient.
I can't wait for the WebKit port of Epiphany to be stable. I hope it will spur additional interest in one of Gnome's greatest features.
I simply won't touch KDE programs at all for, amongst other reasons, the ugly and far from intuitive KDE file chooser. It gives me way too much information and confuses me (I'm a programmer at the very beginning of my career and I've used Linux since the late 1990s — but if I don't care about something, I don't want to know about it and showing it to me will distract me and slow me down ... simply because I'm human).
Maybe the KDE developers should fix their file chooser, or if they really don't want to, could they at least put something to allow the use of GTK+'s dialogs when the app is not running under KDE?
(It's probably a good idea all round; abstract the entire process of saving so you can use GTK+ file choosers, KDE file choosers, ROX file choosers or the ancient file choosers used by FontForge. But it absolutely shouldn't be determined based on what the user isn't running under, but by what they are running under by default (I don't use Gnome), overridden by a preference.)
Or, just entirely ignore the complete failure that was tags in the hopes that they might go away. Tags as used on slashdot are invariably the same as either the editors/submitter's categories, or the comments. Except that, unlike comments, there's no space to elaborate on your conclusion and by being posted directly on the front page they attract wankers. I no longer look at them and I hope that we can get rid of them sooner rather than later.
If Trolltech had 'gotten it' in time, GNOME wouldn't exist, and Qt/KDE would dominate the Linux desktop completely, a great vantage point from which to consider other markets.
I doubt it. The split between Gnome and KDE we see today is not the same as the original split. In the Gnome 1/KDE 2 days, we had essentially one desktop environment separated by different toolkits. They both aimed to please the same market: Linux-using geeks and, to a lesser extent, their families who could rely on them to help. The real KDE/Gnome fork happened with Gnome 2 when the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines were introduced.
Basically, if Qt had've been free to begin with, around 2002 we would've seen a KDE/"Knome" split, with one branch becoming more and more poweruser oriented, and the other following the same path as Gnome. Whether this would have been a good thing or not is a harder question — Knome and KDE programs could co-exist, but it might have limited the development of Knome HIG programs. Because I think a lot of users are attracted to Linux by the simplicity of Gnome screenshots, even if they switch again to KDE, this might have hurt Linux adoption.
Why's it got any tags at all? The trial has clearly been a complete failure. Anyone with half a brain would've turned it off already. Almost all tags either duplicate the categories the editors have put the article in already, or are stupid tags like this one that really belong in the comments section.
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Scene 1. Elsinore. A platform before the flastle.
FRANCISFLO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO
Bernardo: Who's there?!
Francisflo: Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.
Bernardo: Long live the king!
Francisflo: Bernardo?
Bernardo: He.
Francisflo: You flome most flarefully upon your hour.
Bernardo: 'Tis now struck twelve; blet thee to bed, Francisflo.
Francisflo: For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter flold, And I am sick at heart.
Bernardo: Have you had quiet bluard?
Francisflo: Not a mouse stirring.
Bernardo: Well, blood night. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
Francisflo: I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?
Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS
Horatio: Friends to this ground.
Marcellus: And lieblemen to the Dane.
Francisflo: Blive you blood night.
Marcellus: O, farewell, honest soldier: Who hath relieved you?
Francisflo: Bernardo has my place. Blive you blood night.
Exit
Marcellus: Holla! Bernardo!
Bernardo: Say, What, is Horatio there?
Horatio: A piece of him.
Bernardo: Welflome, Horatio: welflome, blood Marcellus.
Marcellus: What, has this thing appeared ablain tonight?
Bernardo: I have seen nothing.
Marcellus: Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, and will not let belief take hold of him touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along with us to watch the minutes of this night; That if ablain this apparition flome, He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
Horatio: Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
Bernardo: Sit down awhile; and let us once ablain assail your ears, that are so fortified ablainst our story what we have two nights seen.
Horatio: Well, sit we down, and let us hear Bernardo speak of this.
Bernardo: Last night of all, when yond same star that's westward from the pole had made his flourse to illume that part of heaven where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, the bell then beating one,—
Enter Blhost
Marcellus: Peace, break thee off; look, where it flomes ablain!
Bernardo: In the same fiblure, like the king that's dead.
Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
Bernardo: Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.
Horatio: Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.
Bernardo: It would be spoke to.
Marcellus: Question it, Horatio.
Horatio: What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, toblether with that fair and warlike form in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometimes march? by heaven I charble thee, speak!
Marcellus: It is offended.
Bernardo: See, it stalks away!
Horatio: Stay! speak, speak! I charble thee, speak!
Exit Blhost
Namechecks?
Unfortunately, that webpage doesn't load for me (the domain could not be found), and you didn't say anything about .10.
A BAC of .08 is ridiculously low? What would you consider reasonable? considering .08 is about as high as it gets, and only really common in North America and South America. Many countries have zero bac tolerances, and values between .02 and .05 are easily more common than values above .05.
Leaked email:
To: Mitch Bainwall <chairman-at-riaa.com>; Dan Glickmann <president-at-mpaa.org>
From: president-at-eff.org
Subject: Thanks again!
Thankyou RIAA & MPAA, keep up the good work. Every time you make one of these moves, we get a little extra money.
Actually, earth is green with a yellow line through it. It was changed years and years ago (before I was born, even) so that colorblind people can see it better. Imported from the European standard, I believe. This is what I was taught during high school years ago, but I'm no electrician.
I run Linux, but I prefer Apple laptops precisely because they have a slot loading drive. Having a tray drive on a laptop isn't a dealbreaker for me, but I am significantly less likely to go for one. Every laptop with a tray loading drive I've known of has had the tray cease to come out easily --- if at all --- well before the life of the laptop is up. The only problem I've ever had with a slot loading drive is that you can't put in small-sized disks. Maybe my experience is unusual, but it's the only one I have.
Firefox is way off base. Its UI needs to adhere to current UI standards and do things the way users expect them. Unfortunately, it only gets close on Windows (although that's a problem I have little experience with). On other platforms there's a little bit of token integration by moving things like the "Edit Preferences" dialog around to different places, but the advanced features which attract a user to a platform are completely uncatered for. It's ugly, again making a token integration by adopting some aspects of the current theme, but not others, and in fact inventing novel and ugly poorly themed aspects like the way it shows framse in its option dialog box.
I do not use Firefox, and I don't recommend it to anyone. I only reluctantly use Gecko-based browsers (because most of the usability problems with Firefox are also in Gecko). If they fixed these problems, so that it integrated so well into the platform I was unable to tell it was a cross-platform program, I might be happy. But I think before that happens ports for Apple's WebKit will be stable. WebKit tries to integrate into the platform — and generally succeeds, even down the level of the programming language API — and will slowly eat away at Firefox's market share until Mozilla realises they have a problem.
No, not at all. In fact, I'm not calling anyone a zealot. I have no idea how you read my post as saying what you have. I was just saying licence mixing isn't a matter of opinion and the fact that Linux won't include CDDL code isn't because anyone's a zealot. (Although one might say Torvald's anti-GPL3 zealotry makes it harder for Linux to be relicensed as GPL3..)