While I do recognize that speed != MHz, you are using a very high end G4 to compare to a currently pretty low end x86. While the 1GHz x86 is a dual-CPU box, this is never the same as higher clocked 1-CPU workstation.
I'm pretty sure a 1.5GHz Athlon will beat an 800MHz G4 for most purposes.
To be fair, you should mention how politics is done in the US.
It at least seems to me, that what the US calls "corruption" in all other countries is just "lobbyism" in the US.
It's not capitalism in itself that is a problem.
I do not know majestic, so I'm going to speak in general terms about all media and cultural activities.
It just shows that culture cannot ever fully be run by for-profit companies. Countries need at least some sort of government backing for cultural activities that isn't profitable, because culture and media isn't necessarily better, just because it is profitable.
An example is BBC, which creates some extraordinary stuff that would never have been created in a for-profit company because the income would not justify the costs.
Actually... AFAIK the API has been frozen for quite some time. The only changes that have been accepted since 1. December is accessibility-stuff and very small and critical changes.
I think it should be pretty safe to start developing for Gnome2 now.
If Audigy is a Windows-only product, then some people will want to know that in a product-review. It is actually a bad point about the product in itself, that it isn't supported under Linux.
Now, if Creative does not want to support Linux-drivers, that is their choice, but I sure want to know about it, and thus the review should mention it.
There are three choices for Linux-support:
1. Ignore it
2. Develop own drivers
3. Release specs so other people can write drivers.
If Creative choose 2. they are of course responsible for the quality.
If Creative choose 1. They are responsible for possible lack of good quality drivers.
Mostly this is a good idea. Makes it easy to create video-discs that are playable in DVD-players. There is nothing wrong about that.
The problem is the format, which is closed, proprietary and patented. It gives Microsoft total control over it. This can only contribute to increasing their already dominant monopoly situation.
I just cannot understand what would be so wrong about Microsoft having to release all of their protocols and formats under royalty-free licenses (Or RAND for commercial entities). Closed protocols and formats have ABSOLUTELY no benefits to the consumers whatsoever.
IANAL, but I seem to recall lawyers arguing on this, and if I recall it correctly it is like this:
* abandonware is a legally useless term
* it is still illegal to trade what people refer to as "abandonware".
The only people the term mean anything to, is those that want to justify trading older games.
Personally I think copyright should not go that far back. People SHOULD be able to trade abandonware, because society earns nothing from having people live on their royalties instead of coming up with something new.
Copyright should be ~5 years, that leaves enough of a window for people to exploit their material/software.. After five years they better come up with something new.
1. It looks and feels like a native Gnome-app, unlike Mozilla.
2. It has a few nice extra features yes.
3. It still loads faster.
4. The tabbed browsing feels more mature.
5. It has nice crash-recovery.
The main thing for me, is the Gnome look and feel. In all these years with Netscape and Mozilla I've only dreamt of a browser that feels "native".
Not at all... but why are you complaining like this? This isn't even insightful, it is just a typical ranting.
You can actually buy a completely different phone if you want to, you know that right?
People have different usage-patterns, and thus there are lots and lots of different phones on the market. If you feel you belong to a group that are not covered, I suggest you write a letter to the phone-makers and argue why you think it would be benificial to both you and them to create "your dream phone".
"I know some countries have a law that states that children can't be on the street at night alone without parent or guardian. And that makes mush more effective and easier than just plainly making streets at night kid-safe. "
First I have to say that most of your posting is rather reasonable, and I may even misunderstand you... but the situation you discribe in my quote is HORRIBLE.
So there are actually laws that really limit the freedom of parents and children, just for the sake of protecting the children.
Making sure the child is home early, is the parents job, not the government. I realize that some people spend way too little time with their children, but passing the child care over to the public in this way is horrible. It sounds almost like a real police state or dictatorship. What countires are using this kind of laws.. because using the worlds dictatorships as an example of how things could be done, is not exactly what I would do.
Children have to actively search for naughty content to find it (in most cases). Banning the opposite example (that is, banning active advertising for naughty content without some sort of age-verification) is fine by me, but banning the actual content, or banning children from using the Internet is just plain wrong. There are plenty of good uses of it. That said, I think parents should monitor their childrens usage of the Internet, and schools or libraries should try to monitor the situation, but there is a huge difference from actual laws and healthy self-regulation.
Eeeh... please... so the civil rights movement changed nothing?
The United States may have been the land of the free for YOU in the 1960s, but it sure as hell wasn't for everybody.
Just because you guys now have some stupid laws, does not mean everything is worse than it used to be.
Security exploits are not always blindingly obvious, and how would you know exactly what parts of the patches were security fixes, and what wasn't?
Even if you can spot these easily, there is still a lot more work involved in going through diffs, than just being told what was fixed.
That has to be one of the worst misuses of "occam's razor" ever.
AFAIK the only thing it states is that when you have several possibilites the simplest is most likely to be correct.
Before you use occam's razor as an argument, you have to actually argue that your proposed solution is the "simplest" one.
Which is the simplest solution?
1. Ashcroft has seen a terrible act of terrorism and wants to stop it from happening again.
2. Ashcroft has seen a terrible act of terrorism, and cynically wants to use it for his own hidden agenda.
The only people that will EVER consider 2. the simplest solution, is conspiracy theorists that thinks the worst of everyone.
Now.. this argument has nothing to do with my opinion on the actual case, your arguments just don't hold water, like some of the others I've read until now.
The current generation of Apache is of course mature. The _next_ generation has so far not proven itself. I'm always a bit sceptical when commercial entities release software based on _beta_ or even _alpha_ free software.
Why does Direct X _have_ to be dictated by Microsoft? Why can't the OSS-community embrace and extend?
The fact is that most development houses will only program for one API and they will choose the one that is reaches the largest parts of the market. If another API can reach an equal amount of people, while being clearly superiour and not costings lots of money for retraining, then you can expect to have game developers actually use it.
If you can prove that an cross-platform API will make you sell substantially more copies of a game, without it being a support nightmare, you have a winner.
Personally I think there is a bigger chance of having gaming houses try to make sure that their game works fine with Transgamings DirectX-implementation, than switching API.
I really don't care if a game is native or not, if it works perfectly and seamlessly under Wine. It's not like it would look or feel any different, like the difference from at Qt/GTK+ -app to a Wine-app (like Word Perfect).
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I just don't see the point.
I tried to run XEmacs because there is some sort of GTK+-mode, and that might fit better in with my GNOME-desktop, but the whole experience was riddled with small problems. Nothing worked quite the same, and the GTK+-mode had lots of small visual bugs.
Not so... your scores are either due to a misconfigured Nautilus (possibly wrong bonobo-version), or are fake.
These scores make absolutely no sense, unless you've stumbled upon some rare bug, and in that case I'm sure the developers would really like a bug-report.
What are you talking about?
Almost all distributions has nice, simple graphical tools for keeping the distribution updated. Windows is NOT necessarily easier to update than Linux.
There are _other_ arguments for Linux being to hard for average Joe, but updating isn't one of them.
CVS is not the way most people update their Linux-boxes.
It is indeed a bit slower on regular tasks than 1.0.4 (unnoticable).
BUT:
A lot of those not happy with the speed of Nautilus were in fact experiencing some speed-bugs that have been cleared out. So while Nautilus is now overrall a bit slower than 1.0.4, the horrible worst-case behaviour is now much smoother.
Speed is indeed a high priority with the Nautilus-team, but there is always something more important: reliability.
Nautilus 1.0.5 is now in a very usable and reliable state. For most people it should actually be fast enough, but some may still find it on the slow side.
On a 1.4GHz/512MB system it is already very fast. On my 800MHz/256MB system, things work like this:
Staring Nautilus: 7.5 seconds
Opening the first window from blank desktop: 3 secondsOpening second window: 2 seconds
Changing directories: 0.2 - 3.5 seconds (on average around 0.5)*
* The 3.5 seconds is worst case (a directory with ~900 pictures to display pregenerated thumbnails for). Thumbnailing in itself is a seperate thread and async.
It is not at all a Gecko fan-club, but the whole message was laughable.
The notion was so incredibly rediculuous, that it could only be described as a troll.
I have nothing against KHTML, in fact I think it is a fine product.
But why on EARTH would you ditch something that is more mature, more sophisticated, already cross-platform (not only wrappers, or ports to small OSes), and something you are totally familiar with.
The KDE-trolling has to stop, the KDE-developers don't do this, they just program and create a splendid product, but some of the users are doing KDE a disfavor by trolling.
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While I do recognize that speed != MHz, you are using a very high end G4 to compare to a currently pretty low end x86. While the 1GHz x86 is a dual-CPU box, this is never the same as higher clocked 1-CPU workstation.
I'm pretty sure a 1.5GHz Athlon will beat an 800MHz G4 for most purposes.
To be fair, you should mention how politics is done in the US.
It at least seems to me, that what the US calls "corruption" in all other countries is just "lobbyism" in the US.
It's not capitalism in itself that is a problem.
I do not know majestic, so I'm going to speak in general terms about all media and cultural activities.
It just shows that culture cannot ever fully be run by for-profit companies. Countries need at least some sort of government backing for cultural activities that isn't profitable, because culture and media isn't necessarily better, just because it is profitable.
An example is BBC, which creates some extraordinary stuff that would never have been created in a for-profit company because the income would not justify the costs.
Actually... AFAIK the API has been frozen for quite some time. The only changes that have been accepted since 1. December is accessibility-stuff and very small and critical changes.
I think it should be pretty safe to start developing for Gnome2 now.
If Audigy is a Windows-only product, then some people will want to know that in a product-review. It is actually a bad point about the product in itself, that it isn't supported under Linux.
Now, if Creative does not want to support Linux-drivers, that is their choice, but I sure want to know about it, and thus the review should mention it.
There are three choices for Linux-support:
1. Ignore it
2. Develop own drivers
3. Release specs so other people can write drivers.
If Creative choose 2. they are of course responsible for the quality.
If Creative choose 1. They are responsible for possible lack of good quality drivers.
Mostly this is a good idea. Makes it easy to create video-discs that are playable in DVD-players. There is nothing wrong about that.
The problem is the format, which is closed, proprietary and patented. It gives Microsoft total control over it. This can only contribute to increasing their already dominant monopoly situation.
I just cannot understand what would be so wrong about Microsoft having to release all of their protocols and formats under royalty-free licenses (Or RAND for commercial entities). Closed protocols and formats have ABSOLUTELY no benefits to the consumers whatsoever.
IANAL, but I seem to recall lawyers arguing on this, and if I recall it correctly it is like this:
* abandonware is a legally useless term
* it is still illegal to trade what people refer to as "abandonware".
The only people the term mean anything to, is those that want to justify trading older games.
Personally I think copyright should not go that far back. People SHOULD be able to trade abandonware, because society earns nothing from having people live on their royalties instead of coming up with something new.
Copyright should be ~5 years, that leaves enough of a window for people to exploit their material/software.. After five years they better come up with something new.
1. It looks and feels like a native Gnome-app, unlike Mozilla.
2. It has a few nice extra features yes.
3. It still loads faster.
4. The tabbed browsing feels more mature.
5. It has nice crash-recovery.
The main thing for me, is the Gnome look and feel. In all these years with Netscape and Mozilla I've only dreamt of a browser that feels "native".
You'll be happy to hear that accessability is THE big promise for the GNOME2-platform and GTK+ 2.0.
It uses the Mozilla-engine, so it renders excactly the same, and uses the mozilla-plugin-system etc.
It takes care of a few things for Mozilla:
Not at all... but why are you complaining like this? This isn't even insightful, it is just a typical ranting.
You can actually buy a completely different phone if you want to, you know that right?
People have different usage-patterns, and thus there are lots and lots of different phones on the market. If you feel you belong to a group that are not covered, I suggest you write a letter to the phone-makers and argue why you think it would be benificial to both you and them to create "your dream phone".
"I know some countries have a law that states that children can't be on the street at night alone without parent or guardian. And that makes mush more effective and easier than just plainly making streets at night kid-safe. "
First I have to say that most of your posting is rather reasonable, and I may even misunderstand you... but the situation you discribe in my quote is HORRIBLE.
So there are actually laws that really limit the freedom of parents and children, just for the sake of protecting the children.
Making sure the child is home early, is the parents job, not the government. I realize that some people spend way too little time with their children, but passing the child care over to the public in this way is horrible. It sounds almost like a real police state or dictatorship. What countires are using this kind of laws.. because using the worlds dictatorships as an example of how things could be done, is not exactly what I would do.
Children have to actively search for naughty content to find it (in most cases). Banning the opposite example (that is, banning active advertising for naughty content without some sort of age-verification) is fine by me, but banning the actual content, or banning children from using the Internet is just plain wrong. There are plenty of good uses of it. That said, I think parents should monitor their childrens usage of the Internet, and schools or libraries should try to monitor the situation, but there is a huge difference from actual laws and healthy self-regulation.
I looked over some questions, and there are a couple of pretty obvious ones that either aren't their, or hidden due to that pesky moderation.
For instance:
1. The "lousy magazine"-question: Who would you rather be stuck with on a desert island?
2. The "bitter old sysadmin"-question: You are 18, do you punk even know what Multics or VMS is?
3. The "trick"-question: what do you prefer, emacs or vi? (trick question because we all know emacs is superior).
Palm has only bought assets, not the entire company, and I'm pretty sure Be itself retained the right to sue.
My other response was more reasonable. You assume my view is WRONG.
Actually, the fact that we disagree on what is the simple explanation is in itself proof that the "Razor" isn't a valid argument in this case.
Eeeh... please... so the civil rights movement changed nothing?
The United States may have been the land of the free for YOU in the 1960s, but it sure as hell wasn't for everybody.
Just because you guys now have some stupid laws, does not mean everything is worse than it used to be.
Security exploits are not always blindingly obvious, and how would you know exactly what parts of the patches were security fixes, and what wasn't?
Even if you can spot these easily, there is still a lot more work involved in going through diffs, than just being told what was fixed.
That has to be one of the worst misuses of "occam's razor" ever.
AFAIK the only thing it states is that when you have several possibilites the simplest is most likely to be correct.
Before you use occam's razor as an argument, you have to actually argue that your proposed solution is the "simplest" one.
Which is the simplest solution?
1. Ashcroft has seen a terrible act of terrorism and wants to stop it from happening again.
2. Ashcroft has seen a terrible act of terrorism, and cynically wants to use it for his own hidden agenda.
The only people that will EVER consider 2. the simplest solution, is conspiracy theorists that thinks the worst of everyone.
Now.. this argument has nothing to do with my opinion on the actual case, your arguments just don't hold water, like some of the others I've read until now.
The current generation of Apache is of course mature. The _next_ generation has so far not proven itself. I'm always a bit sceptical when commercial entities release software based on _beta_ or even _alpha_ free software.
Why does Direct X _have_ to be dictated by Microsoft? Why can't the OSS-community embrace and extend?
The fact is that most development houses will only program for one API and they will choose the one that is reaches the largest parts of the market. If another API can reach an equal amount of people, while being clearly superiour and not costings lots of money for retraining, then you can expect to have game developers actually use it.
If you can prove that an cross-platform API will make you sell substantially more copies of a game, without it being a support nightmare, you have a winner.
Personally I think there is a bigger chance of having gaming houses try to make sure that their game works fine with Transgamings DirectX-implementation, than switching API.
I really don't care if a game is native or not, if it works perfectly and seamlessly under Wine. It's not like it would look or feel any different, like the difference from at Qt/GTK+ -app to a Wine-app (like Word Perfect).
I just don't see the point.
I tried to run XEmacs because there is some sort of GTK+-mode, and that might fit better in with my GNOME-desktop, but the whole experience was riddled with small problems. Nothing worked quite the same, and the GTK+-mode had lots of small visual bugs.
So I went back to GNU Emacs.
Not so... your scores are either due to a misconfigured Nautilus (possibly wrong bonobo-version), or are fake.
These scores make absolutely no sense, unless you've stumbled upon some rare bug, and in that case I'm sure the developers would really like a bug-report.
What are you talking about?
Almost all distributions has nice, simple graphical tools for keeping the distribution updated. Windows is NOT necessarily easier to update than Linux.
There are _other_ arguments for Linux being to hard for average Joe, but updating isn't one of them.
CVS is not the way most people update their Linux-boxes.
Gaute
It is indeed a bit slower on regular tasks than 1.0.4 (unnoticable).
BUT:
A lot of those not happy with the speed of Nautilus were in fact experiencing some speed-bugs that have been cleared out. So while Nautilus is now overrall a bit slower than 1.0.4, the horrible worst-case behaviour is now much smoother.
Speed is indeed a high priority with the Nautilus-team, but there is always something more important: reliability.
Nautilus 1.0.5 is now in a very usable and reliable state. For most people it should actually be fast enough, but some may still find it on the slow side.
On a 1.4GHz/512MB system it is already very fast. On my 800MHz/256MB system, things work like this:
Staring Nautilus: 7.5 seconds
Opening the first window from blank desktop: 3 secondsOpening second window: 2 seconds
Changing directories: 0.2 - 3.5 seconds (on average around 0.5)*
* The 3.5 seconds is worst case (a directory with ~900 pictures to display pregenerated thumbnails for). Thumbnailing in itself is a seperate thread and async.
This is with all the Bells and Whistles on.
It is not at all a Gecko fan-club, but the whole message was laughable.
The notion was so incredibly rediculuous, that it could only be described as a troll.
I have nothing against KHTML, in fact I think it is a fine product.
But why on EARTH would you ditch something that is more mature, more sophisticated, already cross-platform (not only wrappers, or ports to small OSes), and something you are totally familiar with.
The KDE-trolling has to stop, the KDE-developers don't do this, they just program and create a splendid product, but some of the users are doing KDE a disfavor by trolling.