No offense dude, but nautilus is just a file manager, and a slow one at that. Don't get me wrong, it's nice, and works relativly well, but IMHO the prototype filemanager for E17 (shit, I forget it's name ATM) was a far larger step forward than nautilus, which is like a poor mans explorer or konqueror, but not as well implemented. No offense to the guys at eazel, but I don't think a file manager is that big a deal, or shouldn't be, if Linux is as close to getting into the desktop market as some people would like to think.
True, but not really the point. The original point (IMHO) was that copying or borrowing, the idea of using PDFs as a display (or however osx does it) would be better than making cool looking alpha blending using the current technology.
Don't get me wrong, I love E and I think alpha blending and anti-aliasing looks great, but I've also got a guy at work who does stuff on an iMac with OS/X and even though we razz him, the display just looks AWSOME. Everything with drop shadow, transparancy and anti-aliasing (in tasteful amounts) looks incrediably sweet. I'd love to see that look WITH the same type of technology behind it (talk to any mac guy who has tried to make X look like OS/X and he'll tell you it can emulate it a bit, and kind of look like it, except much worse:)
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Oh sure, next thing you'll tell that santa claus isn't real!
What they forget is that people want to be able to use this like a DVD or VHS tape. If I rent a DVD I want to be able to watch it as many times, or in as many jumps, as I can for the duration of the rental period. I also want the ability to "keep" it longer than allowed (late dues of course) if I have a really busy week and don't get a chance to watch the movie until the night it's due back.
However, this is still a step in the right direction, and we can only hope it becomes more user friendly and linux-friendly (who wants to be they won't let you download mpgs or playable-by-linux avis (aviplay is your friend)?
Yes, but who says what is "all that is needed"? Maybe I disagree that gcc or bash are needed, and that all that's needed to run a Linux system is the kernel? Or what if I think that Linux is paired with Apache but not XFree86 and therefor Should be Called the Apache/Linux system?
It's a delicate point, and you have to walk a fine line to try to keep people happy. Personally I don't disagree that GNU tools were essencial, but "linux" is a hell of a lot easier to say than "GNU/Linux", and in the history of Unix, when did anyone go longer, rather than shorter?:)
There are lots of possible explanations for this... it could just be a hiccup. But the explanation our friend who authored the column
provided is equally plausible.
Well, yes and no. I look at the overall trend, and if you draw out the lines from start to finish, well, they never meet. Look at the drop and the timeperiod, it's less than a month, maybe a couple of weeks, hardly (IMHO) something to worry about.
More than likely the judge is a closet geek going "man, I wish I knew where they got all those wonderful toys". Hell, I'd consider going into the military (or wherever) just for the opportunity to get into the NSA/CIA/Some other TLA just to find out all those questions I've always wanted to know:
What happened at Roswell?
Who killed Kennedy?
How many licks does it take to get to the middle of a tootsie pop?
Could it not be some way of trapping the electronic signals remotely? I remember hearing about this somewhere, not sure if was a conspircy theory, a movie, a book, or what....
Theoretically though, your keyboard emits a signal (albeit through a cable) back to your computer. If you had something sensitive enough, could you not trap those signals and record them? No encryption to worry about, no sniffing on the network or packets to deal with, just pure, raw data from the source!
I think the main point was the the.biz and.info were supposed (supposed) to be to only registered trademark owners to avoid cybersquatting. IE: if I owned the trademark to widget Inc I could register widget.biz without the worry of having to pay $3m for it in a few months.
If I remember my 15th year properly, it was more like
89% downloading pr0n
10% searching for more pr0n
1% chat rooms (BBSs)
Course, this was with a 386 and a 2400 baud modem, so the downloading took more time because it took *forever*. Now I remember the *real* reason I got my 14.4....;)
Sure, other platforms, but those other platforms may have to be running certain software/drivers/protocols that are controlled by only MS. This means that your connection could be through an MS designed and implemented protocol, without Open Source, without peer review, and without the ability to know just how insecure or secure those drivers and protocols are.
Even worse, combine this information with the story a few days ago that linked to the cringly about the rumor of MS designing their own TCP/IP (TCP/MS), well, here is a perfect opportunity to start.
NS browsing isn't that bad (I use galeon now that it's nice and stable though), but other elements in it, such as hitting REPLY ALL to an HTML email sent by OE consistantly causes crashing. If *only* my company had decided on using PGP/GPG for certs instead of X509 (which only netscape under linux will handle):(
I think the issue is not so much that it modifies it, but that it does so without the users knowledge. If someone says to themselves "I'd really like my web surfing experience to have ads all over the text I'm reading" and they install this program then they have no right to bitch. However if the program "sneaks in" and does this without your knowledge and consent, then it's a problem.
:) Anyone who's ever read my page(s) or work knows I don't proofread worth a damn, never really have since high school when they *insisted* that we do multiple drafts and hand them in as well as the final paper. Bah humbug on that shit I say!
I think 99.5% accuracy would suck personally. If you had that close that only a couple of words in say, 200 or 500 or 1000 were wrong, you still have to go and find them. And if the software is that good it would probably do things like to->too or thier->they're. The errors that aren't easily caught by a spell checker program.
No, I'd rather have such horrible accuracy that you *know* you're going to have to go through and correct the document. *OR* I'd take 100% accuracy, so I'd be completely confident that there were no errors.
... and even if there were, the problem with a medium that doesn't understand borders is that the economic laws of switzerland are probably quite different from those of Canada. Or Peru. Or [insert country here].
So they'd have to make the internet obey the laws of borders, which makes it about as useful as the postal service for things. Assuming they could do that, you'd still have to do things like let some packets go from anywhere to anywhere.... how long until someone hacks this to piggyback email in those packets?
Personally this scares the crap out of me. Can you imagine sending an email to friend@peru.com and getting a popup saying "This email crosses 4 borders and is subject to peruvian import, and will cost you $1.23, send? [y/n]". Or surfing to support.asus.tw and getting "this site is xxx miles away and will cost you $1.00/link clicked, $.50/m access and a $4.00 first access charge [y/n]"
I'm glad that this will (probably) never happen. Guess it depends on how powerful business is (oh, and all the people who aren't businesspeople and need the internet? well, we won't worry about them will we.....)
I did hear of one that used your browser to sign a couple of petitions or something, popped up a messagebox to appologize for using your resources and thanking you for understanding, and then mailed itself off to everyone. Some sort of political activist or something. Interesting, but probably still a big annoyance.
Glad I don't run an OS where the mail and browser are integrated so closly into the OS as to allow that sort of thing though;)
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Oh, that'll never happen of course, but it's a nice thought isn't it?
No offense dude, but nautilus is just a file manager, and a slow one at that. Don't get me wrong, it's nice, and works relativly well, but IMHO the prototype filemanager for E17 (shit, I forget it's name ATM) was a far larger step forward than nautilus, which is like a poor mans explorer or konqueror, but not as well implemented. No offense to the guys at eazel, but I don't think a file manager is that big a deal, or shouldn't be, if Linux is as close to getting into the desktop market as some people would like to think.
True, but not really the point. The original point (IMHO) was that copying or borrowing, the idea of using PDFs as a display (or however osx does it) would be better than making cool looking alpha blending using the current technology.
:)
Don't get me wrong, I love E and I think alpha blending and anti-aliasing looks great, but I've also got a guy at work who does stuff on an iMac with OS/X and even though we razz him, the display just looks AWSOME. Everything with drop shadow, transparancy and anti-aliasing (in tasteful amounts) looks incrediably sweet. I'd love to see that look WITH the same type of technology behind it (talk to any mac guy who has tried to make X look like OS/X and he'll tell you it can emulate it a bit, and kind of look like it, except much worse
Oh sure, next thing you'll tell that santa claus isn't real!
You bastard! Tea moving through your nose at high speed HURTS!
Thanks for the morning laugh.
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What they forget is that people want to be able to use this like a DVD or VHS tape. If I rent a DVD I want to be able to watch it as many times, or in as many jumps, as I can for the duration of the rental period. I also want the ability to "keep" it longer than allowed (late dues of course) if I have a really busy week and don't get a chance to watch the movie until the night it's due back.
However, this is still a step in the right direction, and we can only hope it becomes more user friendly and linux-friendly (who wants to be they won't let you download mpgs or playable-by-linux avis (aviplay is your friend)?
Yes, but who says what is "all that is needed"? Maybe I disagree that gcc or bash are needed, and that all that's needed to run a Linux system is the kernel? Or what if I think that Linux is paired with Apache but not XFree86 and therefor Should be Called the Apache/Linux system?
:)
It's a delicate point, and you have to walk a fine line to try to keep people happy. Personally I don't disagree that GNU tools were essencial, but "linux" is a hell of a lot easier to say than "GNU/Linux", and in the history of Unix, when did anyone go longer, rather than shorter?
There are lots of possible explanations for this... it could just be a hiccup. But the explanation our friend who authored the column
provided is equally plausible.
Well, yes and no. I look at the overall trend, and if you draw out the lines from start to finish, well, they never meet. Look at the drop and the timeperiod, it's less than a month, maybe a couple of weeks, hardly (IMHO) something to worry about.
Unless it continues of course
It's dead jim!
Yegods, the poor thing never had a chance...
Why just infect the infected machine and close the backdoor, but have the virus actually carry the Microsoft fix and install it right there and then.
Wow, aren't MS products great that allow you to use so much power through a mail client?!
*sigh*...
What happened at Roswell?
Who killed Kennedy?
How many licks does it take to get to the middle of a tootsie pop?
etc...
2m keystrokes? Well, how many times do you hit space while paging through the alt.binaries.erotica.* groups? :)
Could it not be some way of trapping the electronic signals remotely? I remember hearing about this somewhere, not sure if was a conspircy theory, a movie, a book, or what....
Theoretically though, your keyboard emits a signal (albeit through a cable) back to your computer. If you had something sensitive enough, could you not trap those signals and record them? No encryption to worry about, no sniffing on the network or packets to deal with, just pure, raw data from the source!
I think the main point was the the .biz and .info were supposed (supposed) to be to only registered trademark owners to avoid cybersquatting. IE: if I owned the trademark to widget Inc I could register widget.biz without the worry of having to pay $3m for it in a few months.
If I remember my 15th year properly, it was more like
;)
89% downloading pr0n
10% searching for more pr0n
1% chat rooms (BBSs)
Course, this was with a 386 and a 2400 baud modem, so the downloading took more time because it took *forever*. Now I remember the *real* reason I got my 14.4....
Sure, other platforms, but those other platforms may have to be running certain software/drivers/protocols that are controlled by only MS. This means that your connection could be through an MS designed and implemented protocol, without Open Source, without peer review, and without the ability to know just how insecure or secure those drivers and protocols are.
Even worse, combine this information with the story a few days ago that linked to the cringly about the rumor of MS designing their own TCP/IP (TCP/MS), well, here is a perfect opportunity to start.
NS browsing isn't that bad (I use galeon now that it's nice and stable though), but other elements in it, such as hitting REPLY ALL to an HTML email sent by OE consistantly causes crashing. If *only* my company had decided on using PGP/GPG for certs instead of X509 (which only netscape under linux will handle) :(
"dumbest MCSE"
:) Or maybe it's too right. Hard to say :)
I know it's not an oxymoron, but something about the above phrase is just not quite right
I think the issue is not so much that it modifies it, but that it does so without the users knowledge. If someone says to themselves "I'd really like my web surfing experience to have ads all over the text I'm reading" and they install this program then they have no right to bitch. However if the program "sneaks in" and does this without your knowledge and consent, then it's a problem.
Maybe. Who knows?
:) Anyone who's ever read my page(s) or work knows I don't proofread worth a damn, never really have since high school when they *insisted* that we do multiple drafts and hand them in as well as the final paper. Bah humbug on that shit I say!
I think 99.5% accuracy would suck personally. If you had that close that only a couple of words in say, 200 or 500 or 1000 were wrong, you still have to go and find them. And if the software is that good it would probably do things like to->too or thier->they're. The errors that aren't easily caught by a spell checker program.
No, I'd rather have such horrible accuracy that you *know* you're going to have to go through and correct the document. *OR* I'd take 100% accuracy, so I'd be completely confident that there were no errors.
Just my $0.02
That was from the Crying Game I do believe.
Very appropriate though.
... and even if there were, the problem with a medium that doesn't understand borders is that the economic laws of switzerland are probably quite different from those of Canada. Or Peru. Or [insert country here].
So they'd have to make the internet obey the laws of borders, which makes it about as useful as the postal service for things. Assuming they could do that, you'd still have to do things like let some packets go from anywhere to anywhere.... how long until someone hacks this to piggyback email in those packets?
Personally this scares the crap out of me. Can you imagine sending an email to friend@peru.com and getting a popup saying "This email crosses 4 borders and is subject to peruvian import, and will cost you $1.23, send? [y/n]". Or surfing to support.asus.tw and getting "this site is xxx miles away and will cost you $1.00/link clicked, $.50/m access and a $4.00 first access charge [y/n]"
I'm glad that this will (probably) never happen. Guess it depends on how powerful business is (oh, and all the people who aren't businesspeople and need the internet? well, we won't worry about them will we.....)
I did hear of one that used your browser to sign a couple of petitions or something, popped up a messagebox to appologize for using your resources and thanking you for understanding, and then mailed itself off to everyone. Some sort of political activist or something. Interesting, but probably still a big annoyance.
;)
Glad I don't run an OS where the mail and browser are integrated so closly into the OS as to allow that sort of thing though
Anyone know what is actually changed (aside from the non-human-readable changelog)? Can anyone give a quick and dirty "bug x in 2.4.6 fixed" list?