Agreed; it grew on me as well. When it was first released, I was actually excited for something trying to be different than Windows and Mac OS X -- much like with tiling window managers and E17. But, the people at Fedora don't live in a box, they provide many different ISOs with different default DEs, and they provide easy groups/collections to install different DEs using yum. I have GNOME and LXDE installed and don't have a problem. If I need blazing speed, I log in using the LXDE session, else I use GNOME.
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Actually, Nautilus and the other GNOME applications listed do have a menu. At the top bar in the left corner next to the "Activities" is a little image of the currently focused application. If you right click on it, it brings up the normal menu that you're used to. It's not very intuitive at first... After using Fedora 19 (Beta) for the past few weeks now, I can tell you that GNOME 3.8 has fixed most (if not all) of the stability issues that I used to encounter in Fedora 18. It runs smoother and faster for me. However, the dreaded "tracker" program and the initial installer are still bitches. Fedora fixed the Add and Update Software applications, but now GNOME has broken the Printer application (if use it on a LAN, it will present you with an authorization popup repeatedly for every computer). But internally, I am happier with hostnamectl and SELinux now; Fedora has appeared to fix some of the annoying issues in Fedora 18 at least. Lastly, I suggest LXDE over Xfce:D
Mom: "Sonny, remember to buy some milk and cookies."
Me: "OK mom."
Ad: "Our voice recognition has picked up your liking for cookies. Grab some snackerdoodles today! Yum, yum, yum makes your mouth go numb! SnnnnnnnnnnnnnackerdOOdles!"
Then like in Futurama, it will be in our dreams. Long will be the days when you could buy something without ads. "Remember when you could buy a wooden chair from a carpenter without an ad permanently sealed to it? Those were the good ole' days!" people will say....
if done right. You go to restaurant. Get receipt. Create a one-off closed account with user ID and one-off GUID with exactly the amount of receipt+tip transferred from your actual bank account. Unlike with a card, you just hand the server the user ID+GUID. They never know your full name and credit card number. They can't swap your card with an imposter (plenty of cases where servers will do this if have a similar looking card). If they do decide malicious intent or accidentally mix up your GUID with another, then there is no problem; all that is in the temporary "account" is the exact money. The only thing that will tie them to your accounts is the user ID, and that will not be your direct online banking account, etc.; it will be the (Clinkle's) service. This is just a pipe dream of course, and I'm sure Clinkle's service is more open so that restaurants/etc. don't have to buy new hardware/software; it's probably only a fraction safer than actually giving your plastic card.
Uh hum, even albino crows? Anyway, the statement is true; all governments are pretty much shit. They start out fine with a small number of people but aren't flexible enough to handle the iceberg of people hiding underneath. If you're under a government, you're in a sinking titanic with a drunk captain patching holes and trying to pacify us by giving away free buckets to use against the oncoming rogue wave.
True, but to be fair, it does appear to be "simpler" and lighter than older devices. That's probably due to lack of money available than it is innovation though.
I think what a lot of people forget (or don't know) is that Type Erasure was used in order to make the generated.class files backwards-compatible with older.class files when they added generics in a later version. A lot of Java's limitations are due to stringent backwards-compatibility and due to it taking risks first, realizing the problems, and trying to rectify it, while C# benefited from this greatly. History and the overall picture should be taken into consideration.
To me, this article and arguments are of little value. I use Java because it is a language close to C/C++ with garbage collection that works on many different platforms (any with a JVM). The reality of "write once, run everywhere" did not really come to fruition, but Java is at least a lot closer to it than C#. Mono is a pit stain upon Linux. Others use C# because they need to easily call Microsoft-specific code without the harder-to-write JNI and JNA code; C# runs better on Microsoft than Java, hands down.
You pick languages based on your need (or your customer's need). When I need a complex script (that bash can't handle), I won't be using Java or C#. I'll be using Ruby, Python, etc. If I need strong Gtk support, then I will pick a language easiest to me that has the highest supported version (http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php). If I need strong Windows support, then I will use C#.
Can't pirates just write a script to fix all spaces and punctuation and spelling mistakes? Grammar mistakes would be the hardest or if a word is "misspelled" into an actual word (like spelling "too much" as "to much" or "two much"). I think fixing spaces/apostrophes/etc. would be the easiest.
Wonder if the eBook was actually stolen from your computer? Either by a friend that has physical access to your computer or in the rare case of a hacker (but who would hack you for eBooks)? Surely, you can't be held reliable for this. Then everyone that actually pirates eBooks and gets caught will just use this excuse as a way to get out of trouble. Else, if you are still held responsible for a stolen eBook from your machine/USB, then it screws over the legitimate users buying eBooks and makes them want to actually pirate... a deadly cycle.
He says, "they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent." Maybe I'm just eating the bullshit media too much... but China doesn't seem like the best place for free speech and overall freedom really. He's only left his hotel room 3 times... well, good, because some "hotel worker" may try to read your harddrive or put a bug on it (source being/. articles). I hope he has that bad boy encrypted and is using the TOR network.
Switch to an easier to understand, universal language (both easier for computers and humans). Simple solution. Have everyone learn it. You're trying to put a rectangular prism into a round hole. Until we have a rectangular hole, use a cylinder...
With an Open Source file format, I think it'd be pretty easy in 100 years to write a program to -- at the very least -- convert it to a new Open Source format. If you're a programmer, you know that this is trivial. The only thing you have to worry about is losing the specification or lack of examples (which is extremely rare depending on the popularity of the format).
Step 1: Pick a modern language; today that may be Ruby
Step 2a: Read the Open Source specification; this should easily be preserved on Wikipedia or within other "libraries"
Step 2b: Or, if Step 2a does not exist, search for an example program with code (I've never studied BASIC, but I can read it; programming languages have a lot of common factors)
Step 3: Convert to new Open Source format (since making a Viewer/Editor is probably pointless); share on modern versioning system (today that would be Git) with F/OSS license and spread amongst the geeks
Anyone that says that "Proprietary Formats" aren't the problem are spreading shill -- either from ignorance or from being force-feed by M$ for so long. Proprietary formats may not be the whole problem, but they are 100% part of the problem. If you're not a coder or a geek, then maybe you have an excuse from lack of understanding. Geeks love to preserve stuff and tinker with old technology; read about Atari recently on/.? How many user forums are there are but the most oddball relics? As long as Wikipedia and our desire to store the past holds up, I don't see any problem. If I could, I'd bet my life on being able to still either read/convert the ODT format or code a program to convert the ODT format to a modern format in 100 years.
The scary part... this isn't even just documents. This deals with audio files (why I use FLAC/OGG), images, videos, etc., etc....
I met a girl recently at a bar where she approached and asked me to dance under electric candlelight. Her voice was dark brown like sweet molasses, like a guy actually. I'm not the most physical guy, but whenever she hugs me, it almost breaks my spine. She said that she'll make me a man soon... I hope it works out.
Yes, I agree. This has worked very well with Catholic Priests. They never watch porn or have sex, and I never hear about any molestation or rape of any kind from Catholic Priests.
I guess it's not the same, but I was required to take a Discrete Math for CS course. It zeroed in on the math logic central to CS and also taught CS stuff such as turing machines, finite state automata, etc. Proofs may help with logic thinking, but I'd argue that there are other, better ways (such as being assigned a programming project dealing with complex logic). In computer science, proof is unessential; for example, if you code a program using brute-force that pumps out "magic numbers" that makes computing Chess moves for 8x8 boards faster, then the job is done. No reason to prove it and come up with an algorithm that is more efficient in figuring out the magic numbers. Heck, cut out the bit of math that may be helpful to CS from these advanced math courses and call it "Math for CS 101." IMHO, CS logic is best learned in CS programming projects (or in CS classes) since that's where your job after college will be in. And with the unrealistic "standards" of today's bosses, you will never have time to "prove" it; sometimes you just have to bang it out as efficiently as possible -- even if that means psuedo-brute-force.
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Please don't say "possible Exception"... *CRINGE*
Agreed; it grew on me as well. When it was first released, I was actually excited for something trying to be different than Windows and Mac OS X -- much like with tiling window managers and E17. But, the people at Fedora don't live in a box, they provide many different ISOs with different default DEs, and they provide easy groups/collections to install different DEs using yum. I have GNOME and LXDE installed and don't have a problem. If I need blazing speed, I log in using the LXDE session, else I use GNOME.
Actually, Nautilus and the other GNOME applications listed do have a menu. At the top bar in the left corner next to the "Activities" is a little image of the currently focused application. If you right click on it, it brings up the normal menu that you're used to. It's not very intuitive at first... After using Fedora 19 (Beta) for the past few weeks now, I can tell you that GNOME 3.8 has fixed most (if not all) of the stability issues that I used to encounter in Fedora 18. It runs smoother and faster for me. However, the dreaded "tracker" program and the initial installer are still bitches. Fedora fixed the Add and Update Software applications, but now GNOME has broken the Printer application (if use it on a LAN, it will present you with an authorization popup repeatedly for every computer). But internally, I am happier with hostnamectl and SELinux now; Fedora has appeared to fix some of the annoying issues in Fedora 18 at least. Lastly, I suggest LXDE over Xfce :D
Mom: "Sonny, remember to buy some milk and cookies."
Me: "OK mom."
Ad: "Our voice recognition has picked up your liking for cookies. Grab some snackerdoodles today! Yum, yum, yum makes your mouth go numb! SnnnnnnnnnnnnnackerdOOdles!"
Then like in Futurama, it will be in our dreams. Long will be the days when you could buy something without ads. "Remember when you could buy a wooden chair from a carpenter without an ad permanently sealed to it? Those were the good ole' days!" people will say....
if done right. You go to restaurant. Get receipt. Create a one-off closed account with user ID and one-off GUID with exactly the amount of receipt+tip transferred from your actual bank account. Unlike with a card, you just hand the server the user ID+GUID. They never know your full name and credit card number. They can't swap your card with an imposter (plenty of cases where servers will do this if have a similar looking card). If they do decide malicious intent or accidentally mix up your GUID with another, then there is no problem; all that is in the temporary "account" is the exact money. The only thing that will tie them to your accounts is the user ID, and that will not be your direct online banking account, etc.; it will be the (Clinkle's) service. This is just a pipe dream of course, and I'm sure Clinkle's service is more open so that restaurants/etc. don't have to buy new hardware/software; it's probably only a fraction safer than actually giving your plastic card.
Had best image/video search first, and their "free" dial-up was great.
they are cute!
Stop tizen us with your jokes!
Why write complex code? Job security.
yeah, seriously, the guys needs to watch the Internship! obviously not a movie-goer. in fact, when you apply, put the Internship movie on your resume.
Uh hum, even albino crows? Anyway, the statement is true; all governments are pretty much shit. They start out fine with a small number of people but aren't flexible enough to handle the iceberg of people hiding underneath. If you're under a government, you're in a sinking titanic with a drunk captain patching holes and trying to pacify us by giving away free buckets to use against the oncoming rogue wave.
True, but to be fair, it does appear to be "simpler" and lighter than older devices. That's probably due to lack of money available than it is innovation though.
breast implants next?
I think what a lot of people forget (or don't know) is that Type Erasure was used in order to make the generated .class files backwards-compatible with older .class files when they added generics in a later version. A lot of Java's limitations are due to stringent backwards-compatibility and due to it taking risks first, realizing the problems, and trying to rectify it, while C# benefited from this greatly. History and the overall picture should be taken into consideration.
To me, this article and arguments are of little value. I use Java because it is a language close to C/C++ with garbage collection that works on many different platforms (any with a JVM). The reality of "write once, run everywhere" did not really come to fruition, but Java is at least a lot closer to it than C#. Mono is a pit stain upon Linux. Others use C# because they need to easily call Microsoft-specific code without the harder-to-write JNI and JNA code; C# runs better on Microsoft than Java, hands down.
You pick languages based on your need (or your customer's need). When I need a complex script (that bash can't handle), I won't be using Java or C#. I'll be using Ruby, Python, etc. If I need strong Gtk support, then I will pick a language easiest to me that has the highest supported version (http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php). If I need strong Windows support, then I will use C#.
Can't pirates just write a script to fix all spaces and punctuation and spelling mistakes? Grammar mistakes would be the hardest or if a word is "misspelled" into an actual word (like spelling "too much" as "to much" or "two much"). I think fixing spaces/apostrophes/etc. would be the easiest.
Wonder if the eBook was actually stolen from your computer? Either by a friend that has physical access to your computer or in the rare case of a hacker (but who would hack you for eBooks)? Surely, you can't be held reliable for this. Then everyone that actually pirates eBooks and gets caught will just use this excuse as a way to get out of trouble. Else, if you are still held responsible for a stolen eBook from your machine/USB, then it screws over the legitimate users buying eBooks and makes them want to actually pirate... a deadly cycle.
He says, "they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent." Maybe I'm just eating the bullshit media too much... but China doesn't seem like the best place for free speech and overall freedom really. He's only left his hotel room 3 times... well, good, because some "hotel worker" may try to read your harddrive or put a bug on it (source being /. articles). I hope he has that bad boy encrypted and is using the TOR network.
Switch to an easier to understand, universal language (both easier for computers and humans). Simple solution. Have everyone learn it. You're trying to put a rectangular prism into a round hole. Until we have a rectangular hole, use a cylinder...
Where and when can I play? I can't be bothered to RTFP.
Anyone that says that "Proprietary Formats" aren't the problem are spreading shill -- either from ignorance or from being force-feed by M$ for so long. Proprietary formats may not be the whole problem, but they are 100% part of the problem. If you're not a coder or a geek, then maybe you have an excuse from lack of understanding. Geeks love to preserve stuff and tinker with old technology; read about Atari recently on /.? How many user forums are there are but the most oddball relics? As long as Wikipedia and our desire to store the past holds up, I don't see any problem. If I could, I'd bet my life on being able to still either read/convert the ODT format or code a program to convert the ODT format to a modern format in 100 years.
The scary part... this isn't even just documents. This deals with audio files (why I use FLAC/OGG), images, videos, etc., etc....
I met a girl recently at a bar where she approached and asked me to dance under electric candlelight. Her voice was dark brown like sweet molasses, like a guy actually. I'm not the most physical guy, but whenever she hugs me, it almost breaks my spine. She said that she'll make me a man soon... I hope it works out.
Hmmm, I replied to the wrong comment. See what pron does to you kids! I'm cross-eyed!
Yes, I agree. This has worked very well with Catholic Priests. They never watch porn or have sex, and I never hear about any molestation or rape of any kind from Catholic Priests.
I would mod you up if Johnny would let me.
I guess it's not the same, but I was required to take a Discrete Math for CS course. It zeroed in on the math logic central to CS and also taught CS stuff such as turing machines, finite state automata, etc. Proofs may help with logic thinking, but I'd argue that there are other, better ways (such as being assigned a programming project dealing with complex logic). In computer science, proof is unessential; for example, if you code a program using brute-force that pumps out "magic numbers" that makes computing Chess moves for 8x8 boards faster, then the job is done. No reason to prove it and come up with an algorithm that is more efficient in figuring out the magic numbers. Heck, cut out the bit of math that may be helpful to CS from these advanced math courses and call it "Math for CS 101." IMHO, CS logic is best learned in CS programming projects (or in CS classes) since that's where your job after college will be in. And with the unrealistic "standards" of today's bosses, you will never have time to "prove" it; sometimes you just have to bang it out as efficiently as possible -- even if that means psuedo-brute-force.