I would disagree quite strongly. I download star trek episodes. They never seem to show in a timely manor over here (uk) and if I miss an episode that's it. I can't even buy them since the dvd's lag 4 seasons behind! Same with southpark, family guy and futurama.
I would very happily pay a fair price to download from bittorrent.
Of course, what a fair price is will probably be disputed:)
So what if you have to read the whole file in? My hard disk, like most, does 40MB/sec. And I'm not sure what you mean by freeform - you still have to follow the dtd.
Yes, but the otherside is worse. The kind of people who don't need to do any homework don't learn the self discipline they need. As soon as they start a PhD or their own business they lack the patience and experience of doing hard work.
It can't get better unless it asks the user to say whether the translation was good or not, and perhaps even ask the human to give the correct version.
Whether it well and truly is indeterminate is a question that has tormented quite a few physicists. The idea that there isn't indeterminacy but instead there are 'hidden variables' that control it is appealing. However the greatest minds that have ever lived have word for decades on this, and have found no satisfactory model for this idea.
These days scientists just all accept that it really well and truly is not set by the universe - it truly is in a quantum state, existing as a probability.
I had the same problem. I sailed through university and got top marks without having to study. Now I'm doing my phd and really struggling to discipline myself.
I always see these types of posts on slashdot, and yet I never see this actually happen.
I'm a KDE developer and see many of the processes that go on. We have a kde-usability group with many members and a high volume of traffic. Daily I see long email threads by the developers and users discussing back and forth ideas.
We have many usability requests filed as bug on our easy to use bug reporting system (from the web bugs.kde.org or from any app Help->Report Bug) and most such bugs are closed quickly.
I can't say I have ever recalled a developer telling a user "if you don't like it, fix the code yourself". All I see are the developers bending over backwards for the users. Because we enjoy what we do and want others to enjoy it.
We haven't proved gravity, existence of light, or well anything at all. All are theories are just that - theories. Some have more evidence for them than others.
Also there's no "*seems* to go slower" about it. Time does go slower.
My favorite way of explaining this, taken from Richard Feynman, is imagine you see a film of a cube. You can see two sides of that cube, and measure, using a ruler pressed against the glass of the TV, the two sides. Now as the cube rotates the two apparent lengths change. And we are familiar with how the two lengths change: x^2 + y^2 = some constant
where x and y are the two sides. Now time is just another dimension like so:
x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2 = sqrt(constant)
we measure the constant in 'space-time' units. - meters. Note that because time is usually measured in second, and space in meters, we can't just subtract. We convert the time to meters by multiplying it by c:
x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - c^2t^2 = sqrt(constant)
Or alternatively you just state that you are measuring t in meters (being c * conventional-t)
So how do we rotate this cube of space-time? We speed up. Velocity rotates this space cube.
Except because it's -t^2 and not +t^2 it's not so much as a rotate, and a sort of rotate and squish. Read the feynman lectures on physics if you are interested in a far better explanation.
I started to learn to use (with no prior experiance in 3D graphics) about a year ago. I read the documentation, did the tutorial, made my gingerbread man, animated it, textured it and made it dance.
That took me a week in total, making me wonder what on earth people complain about when they say they can't use it. Doesn't seem all that hard to me:)
The biggest selling point to me, by far, is the superb documentation. Compare the documentation for, say, QString http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qstring.html against the complete awful docs you get for borland c++ etc.
'He declined to answer, but I'm going to carry on with my post assuming he said yes'
Jeez.
Actually I heard RMS talk in Brussels only a few months ago. In my view, RMS would like to see ordinary off-the-shelf software to be released under the GPL. Things like games etc he said perhaps a 5-10 year copyright. Other forms of information/software should be given a copyright lifetime on a case-by-case basis.
Personally I think this is reasonable. Let all the RMS bashers destroy me (And there seem to be more and more of them here. I was reading a few weeks ago that one reason for this is that more and more ms windows users were reading slashdot now).
Actually Apple is now encouraging some of their engineers to come and talk to us more now. We have spent many hours discussing things back and forth, and hope is high on both sides for a better relationship.
So, I guess in this case, the squeaky wheel gets the grease:)
Hmm, we work hard with Apple to give them the best possible access to our code. Apple does the minimum it can in giving the code back to us. Slashdotters praise Apple for the work on html, and so we just ask for people not to praise apple so much since they aren't exactly working with us - they don't use any of the resources we set up to try to encourage them to work with us.
And now _we_ are the pain to work with and aren't encouraging participation??
I've very recently been dragged into the borland c++ gui. I don't get why they charge so much - it freezes up all the time because the automatic code completion runs syncronously and it has very annoying habits of closing the damn gui editor window when i close the code editor window.
Otherwise its fine, I just don't get what it has that OS progs don't in order to justify the $1500+ price tag.
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hmm, if you quoted the whole sentence you would have realised I said "I think Apple would gain by working with us a bit more". I said nothing about KDE.
Impossible. What kde developer is going to switch to a code base with zero vcs history?
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"Noone seems to bitch about X.org changes not getting back into XFree86."
True, but the X.org changes are all in some form of vcs unlike the apple changes that they give us.
The only 'hoops' we have asked for is that they give us some form of vcs (version control) logs rather than just a single 60MB dump:(
How on earth are we supposed to do anything with comments like "this fixes 2374924" without being able to view what 2374924 is? Some of the kde developers have offered to sign NDA's just to see the commit messages, but apple refuses to reply to such requests.
Personally I think Apple would gain more from working with us a bit more. Particulary with our new dom changes.
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The gpl also disallows the advertisement clause
I would disagree quite strongly.
:)
I download star trek episodes. They never seem to show in a timely manor over here (uk) and if I miss an episode that's it. I can't even buy them since the dvd's lag 4 seasons behind!
Same with southpark, family guy and futurama.
I would very happily pay a fair price to download from bittorrent.
Of course, what a fair price is will probably be disputed
So what if you have to read the whole file in? My hard disk, like most, does 40MB/sec. And I'm not sure what you mean by freeform - you still have to follow the dtd.
Yes, but the otherside is worse. The kind of people who don't need to do any homework don't learn the self discipline they need. As soon as they start a PhD or their own business they lack the patience and experience of doing hard work.
:)
At least, that's me
It can't get better unless it asks the user to say whether the translation was good or not, and perhaps even ask the human to give the correct version.
A core dump is when the kernel kills an app, not when the app kills the kernel. There's a big difference there.
Whether it well and truly is indeterminate is a question that has tormented quite a few physicists. The idea that there isn't indeterminacy but instead there are 'hidden variables' that control it is appealing. However the greatest minds that have ever lived have word for decades on this, and have found no satisfactory model for this idea.
These days scientists just all accept that it really well and truly is not set by the universe - it truly is in a quantum state, existing as a probability.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable
I had the same problem. I sailed through university and got top marks without having to study. Now I'm doing my phd and really struggling to discipline myself.
I always see these types of posts on slashdot, and yet I never see this actually happen.
I'm a KDE developer and see many of the processes that go on. We have a kde-usability group with many members and a high volume of traffic. Daily I see long email threads by the developers and users discussing back and forth ideas.
We have many usability requests filed as bug on our easy to use bug reporting system (from the web bugs.kde.org or from any app Help->Report Bug) and most such bugs are closed quickly.
I can't say I have ever recalled a developer telling a user "if you don't like it, fix the code yourself". All I see are the developers bending over backwards for the users. Because we enjoy what we do and want others to enjoy it.
When a program wants to read or overwrite a file that is open by another program, windows locks the file preventing this.
To get round this the solutions I found on google are to write your own file system device driver. Many such drivers are available to buy.
Um, useful for XUL just like the parent said.
We haven't proved gravity, existence of light, or well anything at all.
All are theories are just that - theories. Some have more evidence for them than others.
Also there's no "*seems* to go slower" about it. Time does go slower.
My favorite way of explaining this, taken from Richard Feynman, is imagine you see a film of a cube. You can see two sides of that cube, and measure, using a ruler pressed against the glass of the TV, the two sides.
Now as the cube rotates the two apparent lengths change. And we are familiar with how the two lengths change:
x^2 + y^2 = some constant
where x and y are the two sides.
Now time is just another dimension like so:
x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2 = sqrt(constant)
we measure the constant in 'space-time' units. - meters. Note that because time is usually measured in second, and space in meters, we can't just subtract. We convert the time to meters by multiplying it by c:
x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - c^2t^2 = sqrt(constant)
Or alternatively you just state that you are measuring t in meters (being c * conventional-t)
So how do we rotate this cube of space-time? We speed up. Velocity rotates this space cube.
Except because it's -t^2 and not +t^2 it's not so much as a rotate, and a sort of rotate and squish. Read the feynman lectures on physics if you are interested in a far better explanation.
Please note that it is also recently revealed that Nokia has been funding GStreamer ! Thank you Nokia!
I started to learn to use (with no prior experiance in 3D graphics) about a year ago.
:)
I read the documentation, did the tutorial, made my gingerbread man, animated it, textured it and made it dance.
That took me a week in total, making me wonder what on earth people complain about when they say they can't use it. Doesn't seem all that hard to me
I now use it to create real life holograms.
The biggest selling point to me, by far, is the superb documentation. Compare the documentation for, say, QString http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qstring.html against the complete awful docs you get for borland c++ etc.
A theme park in the UK, Thorpe park, used to give prizes away if you won at X number of their arcade machines.
There was one which was whack-a-rat - where they pop out of the hole.
A couple of us sat on it, covering all the holes, and got very high scores, winning mugs or something.
'He declined to answer, but I'm going to carry on with my post assuming he said yes'
Jeez.
Actually I heard RMS talk in Brussels only a few months ago. In my view, RMS would like to see ordinary off-the-shelf software to be released under the GPL. Things like games etc he said perhaps a 5-10 year copyright. Other forms of information/software should be given a copyright lifetime on a case-by-case basis.
Personally I think this is reasonable. Let all the RMS bashers destroy me (And there seem to be more and more of them here. I was reading a few weeks ago that one reason for this is that more and more ms windows users were reading slashdot now).
Actually Apple is now encouraging some of their engineers to come and talk to us more now. We have spent many hours discussing things back and forth, and hope is high on both sides for a better relationship.
:)
So, I guess in this case, the squeaky wheel gets the grease
Hmm, we work hard with Apple to give them the best possible access to our code. Apple does the minimum it can in giving the code back to us. Slashdotters praise Apple for the work on html, and so we just ask for people not to praise apple so much since they aren't exactly working with us - they don't use any of the resources we set up to try to encourage them to work with us.
And now _we_ are the pain to work with and aren't encouraging participation??
File specific bugs (the toolbar should be arrange like this) and it will most likely be done.
File at bugs.kde.org
I've very recently been dragged into the borland c++ gui. I don't get why they charge so much - it freezes up all the time because the automatic code completion runs syncronously and it has very annoying habits of closing the damn gui editor window when i close the code editor window.
Otherwise its fine, I just don't get what it has that OS progs don't in order to justify the $1500+ price tag.
hmm, if you quoted the whole sentence you would have realised I said "I think Apple would gain by working with us a bit more". I said nothing about KDE.
Impossible. What kde developer is going to switch to a code base with zero vcs history?
"Noone seems to bitch about X.org changes not getting back into XFree86."
:(
True, but the X.org changes are all in some form of vcs unlike the apple changes that they give us.
The only 'hoops' we have asked for is that they give us some form of vcs (version control) logs rather than just a single 60MB dump
How on earth are we supposed to do anything with comments like "this fixes 2374924" without being able to view what 2374924 is? Some of the kde developers have offered to sign NDA's just to see the commit messages, but apple refuses to reply to such requests.
Personally I think Apple would gain more from working with us a bit more. Particulary with our new dom changes.
Good thing I disclaimed my point by saying it was annecdotal then, otherwise I'd get someone arguing against me.
Oh wait.