That's all well and good, but we're not talking about tap water (which is not always clean, although it usually is or can be cheaply filtered). We're talking about bottled water, which is a good deal more expensive and most certainly doesn't come out of my sink.
It's true - a computer would have a very difficult time parsing those sentences (hell, even I can't figure out what the last one means). However, a computer would have an equally hard time generating them. The challenge sentences would have to be at least somewhat hard-coded. Writing a decoding program would require a certain knowledge of the generating program's behavior, but it would hardly be impossible.
Mouse gestures are nice, but hard from ground breaking. They're too inaccessible for many people, who lack the hand/finger coordination to take advantage of it.
How can you lack the coordination for gestures? There is no coordination! Just hold down the button and drag. You don't have to make it pretty.
The real beauty of tabbed browsing is not the tabs, but features that they make possible. It would be cumbersome to implement multiple home pages, grouped bookmarks, or opening a link in the background with a middle click in a non-tabbed browser. Also, I would consider Mozilla's Type Ahead Find, Opera's FastForward, and Safari's SnapBack, and IE/Mozilla's sidebars to be recent innovative browsing features.
As for great new features in the web overall, you shouldn't need to look too far. CSS, JavaScript, PNG, MathML (eventually), etc. have all made it much easier to create much more complex interactive sites than it would have been in NS1.
There appears to be a religious objection to them in the Linux world
My primary objection is that stuff disappears without you asking it to, which makes it harder to get to what you want. They do remove clutter by hiding infrequently used items, but it's much easier to remove the stuff you don't want, and know that they stuff you do want will stay there.
Paper can potentially last a long time (the US Constitution is still intact, for example). However, the average paper archive the size of a CD (which would physically be quite substantial) would require enough upkeep to make the cost of storing and maintaining it much greater than the cost of burning a new copy of the CD every ten or twenty years.
CDs will last at least as long as the average paper archive, and will still be readable in 50 years. Presumably the equipment to do so won't be widespread, but it'll be there.
He doesn't have to, any more than he came up with a Windows lookalike by himself. Tens of thousands of programmers have helped create GNU/Linux, and quite a few would probably be interested in an Exchange-type server.
"Decent" is more like GeForce4 level, which is good enough for just about every Linux game out there. Nvidia's drivers are probably better than ATI's. However, there are open-source 3D drivers for older Radeons (=9200), which is more than can be said of nVidia's cards.
dselect has a horribly confusing UI, combined with stupid dependency management. I just skip it, install a base system with nothing but bash, dhcp-client, and the kernel, and apt-get install everything I want form there.
Yes it is, but it's not used very much. I think the current preferred method for an "easy" Debian install is to install Knoppix or Libranet first, and then apt-get dist-upgrade to Debian.
KDE was broken in unstable for a long time, due to the G++ upgrade, but it works fine now, and is updated quite frequently. Since unstable is really quite stable, there's no reason not to use it.
The real Order of the Phoenix has 870 pages, 38 chapters, and starts with the line "The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close...". There are a few people with way too much free time who have written their own complete books based on what they think OoP might be. You probably got one of those. But, if you're going to worry about it so much, why not just go buy the real book?
It's no more slavery than serving prison time or being on probabation is. You do something wrong, you lose some freedom. That's the way the penal system works, in American and elsewhere.
Not neccessarily. SCO's claim, which has some merit, is that neither they nor the buyers of their Linux distro knew that these "trade secrets" were part of the deal, and therefore the license is nullified by the "doctrine of mutual mistake".
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If you'd read the article, you'd know that they can through Xbox Live, but it's trivial to disable this once you have full control of the box.
That's all well and good, but we're not talking about tap water (which is not always clean, although it usually is or can be cheaply filtered). We're talking about bottled water, which is a good deal more expensive and most certainly doesn't come out of my sink.
It's true - a computer would have a very difficult time parsing those sentences (hell, even I can't figure out what the last one means). However, a computer would have an equally hard time generating them. The challenge sentences would have to be at least somewhat hard-coded. Writing a decoding program would require a certain knowledge of the generating program's behavior, but it would hardly be impossible.
If you added all the digits in you phone number up what would be their sum?
Those would both be trivial questions for a computer to solve, given decent speech recognition.
IIRC, the current implementation in Mozilla/Firebird is to only preload links with lables like "next" if you're viewing a multi-part document.
How can you lack the coordination for gestures? There is no coordination! Just hold down the button and drag. You don't have to make it pretty.
The real beauty of tabbed browsing is not the tabs, but features that they make possible. It would be cumbersome to implement multiple home pages, grouped bookmarks, or opening a link in the background with a middle click in a non-tabbed browser. Also, I would consider Mozilla's Type Ahead Find, Opera's FastForward, and Safari's SnapBack, and IE/Mozilla's sidebars to be recent innovative browsing features.
As for great new features in the web overall, you shouldn't need to look too far. CSS, JavaScript, PNG, MathML (eventually), etc. have all made it much easier to create much more complex interactive sites than it would have been in NS1.
My primary objection is that stuff disappears without you asking it to, which makes it harder to get to what you want. They do remove clutter by hiding infrequently used items, but it's much easier to remove the stuff you don't want, and know that they stuff you do want will stay there.
I think that honor would have to go to the National Enquirer.
Paper can potentially last a long time (the US Constitution is still intact, for example). However, the average paper archive the size of a CD (which would physically be quite substantial) would require enough upkeep to make the cost of storing and maintaining it much greater than the cost of burning a new copy of the CD every ten or twenty years.
CDs will last at least as long as the average paper archive, and will still be readable in 50 years. Presumably the equipment to do so won't be widespread, but it'll be there.
Unreal 2 is the Unreal engine, just a later version of it. 3DRealms is presumably using the version newer than the original Unreal.
He doesn't have to, any more than he came up with a Windows lookalike by himself. Tens of thousands of programmers have helped create GNU/Linux, and quite a few would probably be interested in an Exchange-type server.
"Decent" is more like GeForce4 level, which is good enough for just about every Linux game out there. Nvidia's drivers are probably better than ATI's. However, there are open-source 3D drivers for older Radeons (=9200), which is more than can be said of nVidia's cards.
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Actually, it'd be 240 more per minute, and 14400 more per hour.
It's supported quite well (with an open-source driver) in 2D mode, and ATI's binary drivers are quite decent for 3D.
dselect has a horribly confusing UI, combined with stupid dependency management. I just skip it, install a base system with nothing but bash, dhcp-client, and the kernel, and apt-get install everything I want form there.
Yes it is, but it's not used very much. I think the current preferred method for an "easy" Debian install is to install Knoppix or Libranet first, and then apt-get dist-upgrade to Debian.
KDE was broken in unstable for a long time, due to the G++ upgrade, but it works fine now, and is updated quite frequently. Since unstable is really quite stable, there's no reason not to use it.
The real Order of the Phoenix has 870 pages, 38 chapters, and starts with the line "The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close...". There are a few people with way too much free time who have written their own complete books based on what they think OoP might be. You probably got one of those. But, if you're going to worry about it so much, why not just go buy the real book?
It's no more slavery than serving prison time or being on probabation is. You do something wrong, you lose some freedom. That's the way the penal system works, in American and elsewhere.
SuSE's license is also for life, but the support lasts one year. I bet that's significantly longer than the "support" you get on $60 Windows systems.
How is that relevant? None of the major Linux desktops (unless maybe you use Metacity by itself) is giving up customizability for simplicity.
You, sir, have been trolled. Very badly.
Not neccessarily. SCO's claim, which has some merit, is that neither they nor the buyers of their Linux distro knew that these "trade secrets" were part of the deal, and therefore the license is nullified by the "doctrine of mutual mistake".