Re:Did they fix the Cancel/Ok buttons?
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No, the decision is because they did think about it. Cancel/OK makes more sense and is fundamentally easier to use than OK/Cancel. That's why Apple uses it.
It'd be nice if Firefox could detect KDE and switch its button order. However, as Firefox is written in GTK and KDE already has its own non-Gecko browser, probably most of the Firefox developers aren't KDE users and don't care. If you do care, go ahead and code it.
one can start to paint a portrait of the counterfeiter
The kind of counterfeiters that the Secret Service would be painting portraits of are not using Photoshop and desktop inkjet printers. They're far beyond that.
Many GPL projects include the work of many, many contributors. Relicensing would require the agreement of every single one of them, which would be almost impossible to get for, say, the GIMP.
Firefox isn't well-threaded on any platform (I'm using it under Windows on a dual Athlon and it hangs when I load a complex page into one tab). QT wouldn't change that.
I'd be intrigued to hear why you believe GTK is so "fundamentally backwards", seeing as just about every useful Linux app (except for maybe KDevelop, K3B, and OO.o) is written in it.
That was the original purpose of the MP1 and MP2 formats (MPEG Layers 1 and 2, respectively). They pretty much disappeared after most computers became fast enough to decode MP3 easily. I don't think there's really enough demand for modern low-complexity codecs. After all, LAME-encoded MP3 still sounds better than many "modern" formats, and it's fairly easy to decode. Apple seems to have done a decent job implementing AAC in hardware, and Monty thinks that Vorbis on iPod is quite doable. Since hardware is only getting cheaper and more power-efficient, the effort to develop such a codec probably wouldn't be worth it.
Having the power button on the keyboard was pretty cool, though, I'll give you that. That's definately something I'd like to have for convenience if nothing else.
FWIW, many modern PC BIOSs will let you map a key on the keyboard (or series of keys) to the power button. You could use Caps Lock.:-)
Re:Caps Lock? Who cares about Caps Lock?
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Various things. On the Linux console, it freezes the screen to allow you to read fast-moving scrolling text. In Excel (and probably other spreadsheets) it makes the arrow keys control the viewport instead of the cursor (if I didn't explain that well, try it yourself and see). It's also used by some KVM systems to toggle between multiple systems.
Re:Replace it with a key labelled [help]
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On my MS keyboard, they're Help, Undo, Redo, New, Open, Close, Reply, Fwd, Send, Spell, Save, and Print, in that order. So F1 is "Help" on some keyboards.
Someone (friend, family member, coworker) could easily "borrow" a reviewer's screener copy for a couple hours to rip it, without the reviewer ever knowing.
It's not a minor technicality. If you want a window manager, there are plenty out there, most coming in at less than a meg. Feel free to
If you want a full working environment, including a window manager, panel, filemanager, menu system, office suite, web browser, hardware and system configuration, media players, and a full suite of APIs with devtools, it's gonna cost you some disk space (although not 1GB - I could installing a whole system with KDE and GNOME with footprint <1GB). If you don't want all of that, then don't install it.
Your distro's package manager should provide such functions. In Debian 'apt-cache search' will find a package's name, and you can use any of many GUIs (aptitude, deity, dselect, synaptic, etc.) to browse the full package-list, organized however you want.
That said, someone needs to write a simple app that associates itself with package files and puts up a Windows-like installer GUI. Aunt Tille doesn't want to 'apt-get install' anything.
Jokes aren't amusing if they're stupid. They don't have to be true, but there has to be a basis in fact, or at least people's perceptions. For example:
How was copper wire invented? Many years ago, two Jews found the same penny.
is funny (even though it's not true), because it plays off of the perception of Jews as streotypically stingy. If you told the same joke about, say, philanthropists, it wouldn't be funny at all.
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It'd be nice if Firefox could detect KDE and switch its button order. However, as Firefox is written in GTK and KDE already has its own non-Gecko browser, probably most of the Firefox developers aren't KDE users and don't care. If you do care, go ahead and code it.
The kind of counterfeiters that the Secret Service would be painting portraits of are not using Photoshop and desktop inkjet printers. They're far beyond that.
Many GPL projects include the work of many, many contributors. Relicensing would require the agreement of every single one of them, which would be almost impossible to get for, say, the GIMP.
GIMP is not a commercial app, therefore its distribution isn't interstate commerce (IANAL).
in any event, the federal government has the authority to do pretty much anything it wants to do to prevent counterfeiting.
True, there's a special clause in the constitution for that.
There couldn't be a GIMP EU edition, the proposed counterfeit-detection code is closed source and therefore GPL-incompatible.
I'd be intrigued to hear why you believe GTK is so "fundamentally backwards", seeing as just about every useful Linux app (except for maybe KDevelop, K3B, and OO.o) is written in it.
People create it because they're sick freaks. Money is a side benefit.
That was the original purpose of the MP1 and MP2 formats (MPEG Layers 1 and 2, respectively). They pretty much disappeared after most computers became fast enough to decode MP3 easily. I don't think there's really enough demand for modern low-complexity codecs. After all, LAME-encoded MP3 still sounds better than many "modern" formats, and it's fairly easy to decode. Apple seems to have done a decent job implementing AAC in hardware, and Monty thinks that Vorbis on iPod is quite doable. Since hardware is only getting cheaper and more power-efficient, the effort to develop such a codec probably wouldn't be worth it.
Just because you don't use FLAC, Speex, or Theora doesn't mean no one else does.
FWIW, many modern PC BIOSs will let you map a key on the keyboard (or series of keys) to the power button. You could use Caps Lock. :-)
Various things. On the Linux console, it freezes the screen to allow you to read fast-moving scrolling text. In Excel (and probably other spreadsheets) it makes the arrow keys control the viewport instead of the cursor (if I didn't explain that well, try it yourself and see). It's also used by some KVM systems to toggle between multiple systems.
On my MS keyboard, they're Help, Undo, Redo, New, Open, Close, Reply, Fwd, Send, Spell, Save, and Print, in that order. So F1 is "Help" on some keyboards.
The hardware is capable. The software doesn't expose that functionality. See iPod Linux.
Compiling parallelizes quite well. See distcc and XCode/Rendezvous.
Professionals don't sell cam bootlegs. Telesyncs or screeners only, generally.
Someone (friend, family member, coworker) could easily "borrow" a reviewer's screener copy for a couple hours to rip it, without the reviewer ever knowing.
If you want a full working environment, including a window manager, panel, filemanager, menu system, office suite, web browser, hardware and system configuration, media players, and a full suite of APIs with devtools, it's gonna cost you some disk space (although not 1GB - I could installing a whole system with KDE and GNOME with footprint <1GB). If you don't want all of that, then don't install it.
That said, someone needs to write a simple app that associates itself with package files and puts up a Windows-like installer GUI. Aunt Tille doesn't want to 'apt-get install' anything.
Pfff. I can do that with a 2-year-old Radeon 9700 PRO on an Athlon 2200. UT2k4 isn't all that taxing.
QT/KDE Java already exists.
GTK has both of those (GtkTextView and GtkHTML respectively). Dunno if GTK# has bindings for them, but I'd assume it would.
No, it's be RAED. A RED (a redundant expensive disks) makes no sense.
How was copper wire invented?
Many years ago, two Jews found the same penny.
is funny (even though it's not true), because it plays off of the perception of Jews as streotypically stingy. If you told the same joke about, say, philanthropists, it wouldn't be funny at all.
The original poster said WMV was "better than MPEG". That makes it pretty clear that he didn't know that WMV is MPEG. However, ignorance != idiocy.