I believe they may be ( legitimately ) making fun of how the kernel is glorified and how compiling drivers is taken by linux users as the norm. They know, many people wouldn't care so much about what the major parts of an OS are, nor would appreciate compiling drivers.
Windows is much more than a kernel, they have an advantage over open-source desktops in terms of integration and functionality ( which will soon change due to a community X server project ). They also provide relatively stable driver interfaces so no recompillation is required.
Many will say that that is what Linux should aim at. But I somewhat disagree. Sure some would benefit from interface stability, but face it: TV replaced radio and TV isn't like radio - The computer will not be like the TV. Granted, people still listen to radios on their digital TV sets...
I believe he meant design mode. Konqueror is working on it too right now. Internet Explorer has not been a web-developing solution, but editable pages have been there before mozilla's.
The problem with lack of domination of at least a standard underlying software architecture is that we may get this great software X for the Mac, this great software Y for Linux and this great software Z for Windows. Not a lot of people can afford to have three machines on their desk, at least for now.
Competition is good only if there is some commonality, at least in the sense that a piece of software can run on multiple platforms. But this can't be technically viable for software companies if there are so much differences.
Take an example of this problem: software that only works on OSX but not on Windows (or Linux). Obviously it turned out that a lot of people wanted iTunes on Windows, but it took Apple to take the step forward.
I personally think that competing Linux/FreeBSD distributions are better than Windows Vs. Linux Vs. Macintosh. And that is similar to the Intel Vs. AMD in the hardware arena.
It's marked red there still. I can also attest that there are no signs of Exchange support in CVS ( thanks to my distro providing easy compiles, I update every week ).
Well, wouldn't it be the case, that the violator would still know what the violating code has been and still inform Linus to remove it? Unless this violator is an infiltrator. Conspiracies to incriminate are illegal however.
I would hardly say the contents of your NTFS partition will be destroyed if you don't defragment. The point of defragmenting the partition before resizing is so that all data in it is contiguous. No decent partition editor would cut a partition off in between its data. And since partitions are always contiguous areas of the harddrive, this increases the chance of the newly created partition to occupy more space.
Bluntly said, if you don't defrag, you won't be able to resize that NTFS partition as much as you would have been able to had you defragged it.
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I believe they may be ( legitimately ) making fun of how the kernel is glorified and how compiling drivers is taken by linux users as the norm. They know, many people wouldn't care so much about what the major parts of an OS are, nor would appreciate compiling drivers.
Windows is much more than a kernel, they have an advantage over open-source desktops in terms of integration and functionality ( which will soon change due to a community X server project ). They also provide relatively stable driver interfaces so no recompillation is required.
Many will say that that is what Linux should aim at. But I somewhat disagree. Sure some would benefit from interface stability, but face it: TV replaced radio and TV isn't like radio - The computer will not be like the TV. Granted, people still listen to radios on their digital TV sets...
MSIE does NOT have a Composer analogue. It is highly unlikely that the original poster was referring to a non-existant application.
What MSIE DID have was usereditable pages. Mozilla has it too, now. Nothing to do with Composer though.
Like what? Is making money what you refer to is "evil" ?
I believe he meant design mode. Konqueror is working on it too right now. Internet Explorer has not been a web-developing solution, but editable pages have been there before mozilla's.
google search strategy:
caret design mozilla
So...what's wrong with non-free software?
Adelphia in Santa Monica allows Cable Internet access without TV access contract.
But I understand why cable companies would be reluctant to do that: Analog TV signal is still available, even if you don't pay for it.
Would you care to explain how your digital cable company uses the phone line?
This is not true. What they did have with the PowerToys, however, is focus follows mouse or X-mouse.
You seem to be confusing the popup handling with mouse gesture handling.
Why hasn't anyone considered the possibility of Loki buying Novell out?
I for one would think that any other ending of this thriller would be utterly disappointing to the sophisticated Slashdot reader.
That pal you refered to was nick-named "Dark Avenger". I think he quit communicating with Ms. Gordon when she became Mrs. Gordon.
Not quite - checks have expiration dates, you know.
The problem with lack of domination of at least a standard underlying software architecture is that we may get this great software X for the Mac, this great software Y for Linux and this great software Z for Windows. Not a lot of people can afford to have three machines on their desk, at least for now.
Competition is good only if there is some commonality, at least in the sense that a piece of software can run on multiple platforms. But this can't be technically viable for software companies if there are so much differences.
Take an example of this problem: software that only works on OSX but not on Windows (or Linux). Obviously it turned out that a lot of people wanted iTunes on Windows, but it took Apple to take the step forward.
I personally think that competing Linux/FreeBSD distributions are better than Windows Vs. Linux Vs. Macintosh. And that is similar to the Intel Vs. AMD in the hardware arena.
It is two tabs now. It was a design problem, rather than functionality issue - the functionality is still the same with less clutter.
All major P2P protocols have clients available for Linux
raed the occurances of "ei" in his post. also, raed your own post and notice yuor use of "being"
Hope someone gets the sarcasm of the poster
Exchange support is not even in the works (yet):
d e- 3.2-features.html
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/k
It's marked red there still. I can also attest that there are no signs of Exchange support in CVS ( thanks to my distro providing easy compiles, I update every week ).
How about "when your girls come over"
http://www.novell.com/linux/
Interesting observation
Well, wouldn't it be the case, that the violator would still know what the violating code has been and still inform Linus to remove it? Unless this violator is an infiltrator. Conspiracies to incriminate are illegal however.
Nice post, where are my modpoints...
I would hardly say the contents of your NTFS partition will be destroyed if you don't defragment. The point of defragmenting the partition before resizing is so that all data in it is contiguous. No decent partition editor would cut a partition off in between its data. And since partitions are always contiguous areas of the harddrive, this increases the chance of the newly created partition to occupy more space.
Bluntly said, if you don't defrag, you won't be able to resize that NTFS partition as much as you would have been able to had you defragged it.
So that's what it means when they say "REAL" gamers never restore from saved versions.