They're not buttons, just text links tarted up with CSS (which should mean it can be overridden with userstylesheets).
"Post Comment" form "Preview" and "Submit" buttons
These are real buttons (and will usually appear in the OS's native style, maybe even using real native widgets (omg!)), but I believe they can only be used for form input controls.
Aside from reasons already mentioned (non-exclusive ownership and other unknowns or ambiguities), OS/2 is still a commercial product under the eComStation brand by Serenity Systems. I'm sure their contract with IBM has something to say about exclusive distribution rights or some such.
IBM themselves have finally moved on, though. Their hardware management consoles still used OS/2 until a few years ago, but they're all Linux now.
For glass platters, remove the screws holding them to the spindle, replace the cover and spin up the drive. There should be enough torque that the platters will remain stationary while the spindle gets to full speed, at which point you tilt the drive, the platters catch the spindle and they explode, internally.
Mainstream environmentalism is all about PR and raising awareness. A street lamp with a solar panel on the top connected to the grid doesn't make quite as profound a "we're doing something for the environment" statement as does a lamp that powers itself and will even run for days on minimal input.
Earth Hour was even more useless than this, but most people are stupid and need to be treated like little children with silly gimmicks to get them to pay attention: turn the god damn light off when you're not using it, mmkay?
And that's why this unbundling crap is so retarded and has been since the American antitrust case. OEMs will go right ahead and install the full suite of MS freebies anyway, even if they install others as well.
The good news is someone's finally getting it: they finally want to force MS into standards compliance. That's all that really matters. I don't see the browser application itself (or media player, for that matter) as a monopoly abuse - it's the content that's the abuse. IE/WMP both play proprietary content, using Windows as the vehicle.
Sabotaging Windows' built-in media capabilities only harms consumers. Preventing MS from leveraging those capabilities to push their own proprietary, non-interoperable formats helps them and everyone else.
Any modern Linux distro does it like this: Insert CD > turn computer on > click on "install" > type your name > type your password > click "next" a few times for the defaults, or click on the other options if you do not want the defaults. Follow?
Irrelevant. You're talking about installing Linux on a blank machine. I'll requote what you yourself quoted, since you obviously forgot 2 seconds afterwards: "You can dual boot your computer with Linux, but if you don't defrag and partition the HDD, you'll lose all your data."
Which Linux distros can automatically and safely resize the existing NTFS partition, thereby satisfying both the dual boot and not losing your data requirements?
Who's talking about browser scripting? Put an executable in a link and anyone will be able to run it by clicking.
That's what ActiveX is, so assuming they're using it for legitimate purposes that's what they need. If they just need any sort of scripting, there are still proper scripting options available on Windows so your whine about proper command line scripting is also irrelevant (you're not wrong that Windows has sucky command line scripting, but that's not a requirement).
In the stated context of dual booting, partition == make one (or room for one) for Linux instead of overwriting your Windows one, thereby losing your data since you're a newbie with no backups. Defragging is/was necessary for primitive/free/cheap partition resizing tools because they either couldn't or couldn't reliably relocate blocks by themselves. Defrag > resize > install linux on vacated space. Follow?
And fuck knows what the hell they need that horrible ActiveX shit for (and they probably don't, they're just twits), but the average *nix scripting language isn't a client-side browser scripting language at all so it's hardly a comparison. Outside of the browser, there are in fact scripting options on Windows beyond batch files and there's always plain ol' binary executables.
Now, aren't you late for class or something? 14 year old angsty tards were still required to attend regularly last I checked.
If it was culturally encouraged they might. Service people and street performers get tips even when it's not legally required, after all. If society develops around the free exchange of the arts, it may simply be the done thing to pay for what you like.
In the short term though, it's probably going to be more like "w00t, free shit lolz!!!" than the above.
Well, I don't live in the USA so perhaps I take the lack of corporatist corruption for granted...
True, economic growth doesn't necessarily make life better for everyone, but it at least makes it possible. Stagnating doesn't do society or the environment any good.
People who "conserve" by not buying things are not contributing to the economy, tax revenue or technological progress, so why the hell should they get tax breaks?
Expensive toys fund the economy, the government and advance the state of the art so that everyone can enjoy a better life while using less resources. Your theory on conservation is simply useless (at best).
Mail robots were rife by the early 90s when I got online. Gopher, WWW, FTP and numerous custom (non-gateway) bots could be used to automagically request files and documents. Most of them still attached accounting information to the responses too. Even though they were public servers and all the charges were set to zero, I doubt it would have mattered because CPU usage for a robot response was tenths or hundreds of a second. I can only assume there was a time far earlier than the 90s when this information was actually useful.
I don't disagree, but there's not much high ground to be held by the camp that can barely manage to keep X (and the dozen layers of cruft on top of it) responsive at load or even just low latency at idle. Or perhaps more relevant: the recent scheduler flamewar?
Microsoft fucked up once. Both Windows and OS X have been able to manage low latency, highly responsive desktops and good game performance for a lot longer than any of the free/Free platforms (who are still learning to align text on their buttons).
You know, if you had a meta creation field on your files, you'd know if it was deleted and recreated or truncated and copied over, without all this testing;)
Instead, the program will delete the existing file and create a new one in its place.
This is evil and anyone doing it should be KILLed on the spot, for the simple reason that removing and recreating a file destroys its permissions and requires the user to have write permission to the parent directory instead.
This means that storing the real creation time of a file means that it won't be what you expect, because the file that you think is the same file actually isn't.
Depends what you consider a "file" doesn't it?;) A file, to me, is an entity on the disk; a record in the filesystem, independent of its content. A creation time should change for any copies made from it, or if moved to another filesystem.
What you're talking about is content creation time, not file (meta) creation time. Since UNIX already has mtime and ctime to record the content modification and meta modification, why not also content creation and meta creation?
Fortunately, noatime turns the atime into a meta creation time, so that'll do me just fine.
About as many (relatively) showing kernel panics and whatever Macs get, probably.
The last machine of mine to crash was one of the Linux boxes (120+ days uptime.. all gone). If you treat Windows like as you would Linux (ie. set it up, then leave it alone) they'll run just fine indefinitely. Treat Linux as you would a Windows desktop and it'll die rather more frequently than you're used to (I'm looking at you, video drivers).
E:\>uptime \\coco \\coco has been up for: 162 day(s), 11 hour(s), 47 minute(s), 21 second(s)
Of course, the ODT is compressed with ZIP and the DOC isn't.
ODT uncompressed: 120k. DOC(95) compressed: 5k.
And that's ignoring the fact that the *Office suits and their formats are designed for complex layout, so they have that overhead wheather you use it or not. If you want a 2k text file with no formatting: save it as a fucking text file.
Users will eventually figure out they should be sending plain text, perhaps.
Exactly. This has nothing to do with evil formats, just idiot users choosing the wrong tool for the wrong job.
What's wrong with asking the user for permission on every operation?
Because they're morons, don't/can't/won't understand and/or simply don't care, they just want it to work, now, no matter what the consequences. When it stops working they'll call the 10 year old kid next door or get a new computer.
OTOH,
See, in the beginning, a single user OS was perfectly OK.
That's the problem: most Windows systems are still single (physical) user machines; they don't have (half-)clued in admins to manage them on the user's behalf, and they don't have other users to infect. Having escalated privileges on a computer with only one real user doesn't really gain an attacker very much. You can still spam, worm, phish and generally annoy the rest of the internet without elevated privileges. But Microsoft still gets blamed for it. So in reality, asking the user every 5 seconds for confirmation has less to do with privilege escalation and more to do with trying to make the user think about what they're doing.
Isn't that the point of Aero's requirement of a beefy 3D card, so they can do multilayer compositing and effects in the card? All the driver need do is track which layers are playing "special" content and if it's being played on an unblessed output device it simply puts a filter on it that makes it look crappy.
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Aside from reasons already mentioned (non-exclusive ownership and other unknowns or ambiguities), OS/2 is still a commercial product under the eComStation brand by Serenity Systems. I'm sure their contract with IBM has something to say about exclusive distribution rights or some such.
IBM themselves have finally moved on, though. Their hardware management consoles still used OS/2 until a few years ago, but they're all Linux now.
For glass platters, remove the screws holding them to the spindle, replace the cover and spin up the drive. There should be enough torque that the platters will remain stationary while the spindle gets to full speed, at which point you tilt the drive, the platters catch the spindle and they explode, internally.
All done.
Mainstream environmentalism is all about PR and raising awareness. A street lamp with a solar panel on the top connected to the grid doesn't make quite as profound a "we're doing something for the environment" statement as does a lamp that powers itself and will even run for days on minimal input.
Earth Hour was even more useless than this, but most people are stupid and need to be treated like little children with silly gimmicks to get them to pay attention: turn the god damn light off when you're not using it, mmkay?
And that's why this unbundling crap is so retarded and has been since the American antitrust case. OEMs will go right ahead and install the full suite of MS freebies anyway, even if they install others as well.
The good news is someone's finally getting it: they finally want to force MS into standards compliance. That's all that really matters. I don't see the browser application itself (or media player, for that matter) as a monopoly abuse - it's the content that's the abuse. IE/WMP both play proprietary content, using Windows as the vehicle.
Sabotaging Windows' built-in media capabilities only harms consumers. Preventing MS from leveraging those capabilities to push their own proprietary, non-interoperable formats helps them and everyone else.
Which Linux distros can automatically and safely resize the existing NTFS partition, thereby satisfying both the dual boot and not losing your data requirements?That's what ActiveX is, so assuming they're using it for legitimate purposes that's what they need. If they just need any sort of scripting, there are still proper scripting options available on Windows so your whine about proper command line scripting is also irrelevant (you're not wrong that Windows has sucky command line scripting, but that's not a requirement).Monday here.
In the stated context of dual booting, partition == make one (or room for one) for Linux instead of overwriting your Windows one, thereby losing your data since you're a newbie with no backups. Defragging is/was necessary for primitive/free/cheap partition resizing tools because they either couldn't or couldn't reliably relocate blocks by themselves. Defrag > resize > install linux on vacated space. Follow?
And fuck knows what the hell they need that horrible ActiveX shit for (and they probably don't, they're just twits), but the average *nix scripting language isn't a client-side browser scripting language at all so it's hardly a comparison. Outside of the browser, there are in fact scripting options on Windows beyond batch files and there's always plain ol' binary executables.
Now, aren't you late for class or something? 14 year old angsty tards were still required to attend regularly last I checked.
TAI is linear. All adjustments, including daylight saving and leap-whatevers, are applied locally.
If it was culturally encouraged they might. Service people and street performers get tips even when it's not legally required, after all. If society develops around the free exchange of the arts, it may simply be the done thing to pay for what you like.
In the short term though, it's probably going to be more like "w00t, free shit lolz!!!" than the above.
Well, I don't live in the USA so perhaps I take the lack of corporatist corruption for granted...
True, economic growth doesn't necessarily make life better for everyone, but it at least makes it possible. Stagnating doesn't do society or the environment any good.
People who "conserve" by not buying things are not contributing to the economy, tax revenue or technological progress, so why the hell should they get tax breaks?
Expensive toys fund the economy, the government and advance the state of the art so that everyone can enjoy a better life while using less resources. Your theory on conservation is simply useless (at best).
Raise of my stress level means I don't have a god damn 9 of diamonds!!!!
No, Joe Sixpack will simply realise that competition is a loser's game and he should just stick to buying from the established monopoly.
Did you know that you can also drill a hole in it and get 30MB?
Honest.
Mail robots were rife by the early 90s when I got online. Gopher, WWW, FTP and numerous custom (non-gateway) bots could be used to automagically request files and documents. Most of them still attached accounting information to the responses too. Even though they were public servers and all the charges were set to zero, I doubt it would have mattered because CPU usage for a robot response was tenths or hundreds of a second. I can only assume there was a time far earlier than the 90s when this information was actually useful.
I don't disagree, but there's not much high ground to be held by the camp that can barely manage to keep X (and the dozen layers of cruft on top of it) responsive at load or even just low latency at idle. Or perhaps more relevant: the recent scheduler flamewar?
Microsoft fucked up once. Both Windows and OS X have been able to manage low latency, highly responsive desktops and good game performance for a lot longer than any of the free/Free platforms (who are still learning to align text on their buttons).
You know, if you had a meta creation field on your files, you'd know if it was deleted and recreated or truncated and copied over, without all this testing ;)
What you're talking about is content creation time, not file (meta) creation time. Since UNIX already has mtime and ctime to record the content modification and meta modification, why not also content creation and meta creation?
Fortunately, noatime turns the atime into a meta creation time, so that'll do me just fine.
About as many (relatively) showing kernel panics and whatever Macs get, probably.
The last machine of mine to crash was one of the Linux boxes (120+ days uptime.. all gone). If you treat Windows like as you would Linux (ie. set it up, then leave it alone) they'll run just fine indefinitely. Treat Linux as you would a Windows desktop and it'll die rather more frequently than you're used to (I'm looking at you, video drivers).
E:\>uptime \\coco
\\coco has been up for: 162 day(s), 11 hour(s), 47 minute(s), 21 second(s)
DOC(6, 95): 64k
DOC(97): 68k
Office 2003 XML: 16k
ODT: 20k
Of course, the ODT is compressed with ZIP and the DOC isn't.
ODT uncompressed: 120k.
DOC(95) compressed: 5k.
And that's ignoring the fact that the *Office suits and their formats are designed for complex layout, so they have that overhead wheather you use it or not. If you want a 2k text file with no formatting: save it as a fucking text file.Exactly. This has nothing to do with evil formats, just idiot users choosing the wrong tool for the wrong job.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
OTOH,That's the problem: most Windows systems are still single (physical) user machines; they don't have (half-)clued in admins to manage them on the user's behalf, and they don't have other users to infect. Having escalated privileges on a computer with only one real user doesn't really gain an attacker very much. You can still spam, worm, phish and generally annoy the rest of the internet without elevated privileges. But Microsoft still gets blamed for it. So in reality, asking the user every 5 seconds for confirmation has less to do with privilege escalation and more to do with trying to make the user think about what they're doing.
>>> if True: a = 0; b = 1; c = 2; print a, b, c
0 1 2
>>>
Isn't that the point of Aero's requirement of a beefy 3D card, so they can do multilayer compositing and effects in the card? All the driver need do is track which layers are playing "special" content and if it's being played on an unblessed output device it simply puts a filter on it that makes it look crappy.