I'm familiar with journalistic ethics (snigger). I consider the one about revealing possible bias to be one of the silliest things I've ever heard.
By admiting my aunt married the competitors publisher's second niece all it does it raise Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt in the piece. If one doesn't have a recorded conversation... if one doesn't have any evidence that the article suffers bias then it is morally wrong (IMO) to infer that it does. This is what it's all about - trying to stop detractors before they have a chance at FUDing you. When, really, nothing has been proved.
More to the point you may still have been instructed to act in a bias manner and we're none the wiser. It's just Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt without proof - that's important to realise.
I am a little bitter (so please forgive the tone) and here's my experience. I have been FUDded by journalists (with supposed high journalistic ethics) who dug up that my boss went to college with the manager from a competiting product that I reviewed (my boss claims he never knew the guy, and he never talked to me about slanting the review either way). Unfortunately it really gets that petty and there is no proof involved in 'possible conflicts of interest'. It deals only Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt and I don't consider that those qualities to be ones that journalist's - with their "journalistic ethics" - should believe in as moral.
Look 'Brills' - either prove it or shut-up (please). I'm sure there are conflicts of interest in parent companies and someone's second cousin married your best friend's uncle but unless you've got a leaked memo cut out the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (please).
That's assuming they all play nice. Although Jabber is easier to extend than others I wouldn't expect AIM's servers not to continue the trend of locking out unofficial implementations.
(Just goes to show how moderators vote on posts that posture to be correct, but how, really, they don't have a clue.)
Tux only handles static files. It doesn't handle dynamic content (read the readme). It recognises dynamic content and passes that to a proper webserver, like Apache, which is much more suited (Tux isn't meant to compete with Apache). Read on...
I don't use Linux and don't know what the fuck I'm talking about but here's what I remember. Tux's idea is that as TCP/IP is in the kernel why not have HTTP? There's no point running the overhead of Apache for serving static files and that's about all that Tux is good for. Situations such as serving all the images of your site, or static HTML -- Tux is good for this.
The Big Bang theory always sounded too biblical to me. I mean one event from a single point exploding to create everything? We see relatively tiny bangs every day from novas and planetary death - I see no reason to think the Big Bang wasn't just a particularly large version of these daily occurences.
Big Bang really did feel too biblical for my liking.
Well Fiji has a little way to go yet with their coconut rocket. The natives trying to claim their rocket back from the people who made it was topped only by the exchange of 'monkey man' huewson for a larger gorilla with a cache of kalashninovs. Their campaign's forgetable slogan "we'll get into space soon, just come visit!" fooled no one.
Berlin is now abstracted from GGI, which is excellent, as GGI development has slowed a little. Their X compatibility layer isn't much at the moment (it's coming along). At the moment they're making their first application as a proof of concept (the second screenshot - a vector graphics editor).
It's probably a little more correct to say that, although Berlin can do 3D, it's resolution independant and it's GUI is vector based. Unlike pixel based GUIs everything doesn't crunch down into the top left corner of the screen - consider it more like Quake in that a higher resolution adds more detail to the same physical. Current GUIs encourage using a low resolution to clearly see lettering - they don't fully exploit the maximum from your hardware. If anyone remembers that slashdot story a year ago about a 15" flatscreen monitor doing 3000x3000 (or something) and running MSWindows.. the widgets were so incredibly small it was unusable. It's like something you'd hear on the news - but pixel based GUIs are the y2k bug of interfaces.
The GUI is very NeXTish from the resizing widgets. And, as Apple kil^^bought NeXT it's very similar to MacOSX in it's graphical style. Berlin is more advanced than MacOSX though.
The main problem facing Berlin however, IMO, is hardware acceleration. There is no hardware acceleration for transparent GUIs (as proven in ArsTechnica's review of MacOSX's GUI and how Apple are talking to hardware manufacturers for a solution). This would involve a layered approach to 2D rendering. Anyway, drivers for Linux are only written for X (with few exceptions) - Berlin will have a difficult time unless they figure this out. Currently it's not hardware accelerated and is as slow as any SVGALib software, ugh. Berlin needs hardware acceration to the level of X at least. It would be nice to bypass X server entirely though (while providing a compatibility layer).
I would love for BeOS to have a vector based interface. Their GUI although very functional isn't nearly as advanced as the rest of their OS. They can't have a GUI object that isn't in a rectangular window for example and increasing font-sizes breaks their own bundled applications.
Berlin kicks arse though. It's a really exciting GUI project and I highly recommend developers joining in.
What tom fool moderated this up? You can legally demand a replacement as per the terms of your warrenty. Furthermore, in America, Australia, France, New Zealand, and most of Europe (Germany et al) you have legal rights under anything called a warrenty including replacement and refund - you have more rights (with no need for a court) when there is a trend of defective products.
Admit it - the only reason this got so far is because of whiny gits complaining of lost data. Imbeciles - all of them.
Hey, those were the days of 5meg games. 5megs / 14.4k = 347 minutes / 60 = 5.8 hours = overnight for a game. A day for a 20meg game (say, Doom2). People download distros on 56k modems/3 days -- this doesn't sound silly.
Oh goody, more mindless hate of big bad corporations. Being a corporation does not dictate ones behaviour but lets call them all by the top dogs. This socialist crap isn't the same as racism -- no, no... we hate corporations--when will those corporations learn?
By merely existing a corporation is guilty of nothing. Your mindset is one of a bigot.
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I'm familiar with journalistic ethics (snigger). I consider the one about revealing possible bias to be one of the silliest things I've ever heard.
By admiting my aunt married the competitors publisher's second niece all it does it raise Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt in the piece. If one doesn't have a recorded conversation... if one doesn't have any evidence that the article suffers bias then it is morally wrong (IMO) to infer that it does. This is what it's all about - trying to stop detractors before they have a chance at FUDing you. When, really, nothing has been proved. More to the point you may still have been instructed to act in a bias manner and we're none the wiser. It's just Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt without proof - that's important to realise.
I am a little bitter (so please forgive the tone) and here's my experience. I have been FUDded by journalists (with supposed high journalistic ethics) who dug up that my boss went to college with the manager from a competiting product that I reviewed (my boss claims he never knew the guy, and he never talked to me about slanting the review either way). Unfortunately it really gets that petty and there is no proof involved in 'possible conflicts of interest'. It deals only Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt and I don't consider that those qualities to be ones that journalist's - with their "journalistic ethics" - should believe in as moral.
> is owning stock slavery?
No.
Look 'Brills' - either prove it or shut-up (please). I'm sure there are conflicts of interest in parent companies and someone's second cousin married your best friend's uncle but unless you've got a leaked memo cut out the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (please).
That's assuming they all play nice. Although Jabber is easier to extend than others I wouldn't expect AIM's servers not to continue the trend of locking out unofficial implementations.
Karma rewards.
Look, RTFM, Redhat website recommends using Apache as the assistant.
Tux only handles static files. It doesn't handle dynamic content (read the readme). It recognises dynamic content and passes that to a proper webserver, like Apache, which is much more suited (Tux isn't meant to compete with Apache). Read on...
And you work at redhat? (snigger)
Don't worry, I'll get the fiend in metamod.
It sounded too picturesque to be believable, and, when we're talking about the formation of the universe, yes, biblical.
If you put it in bold it can echo up to ten posts deep!
(I hate the threats too)
I don't use Linux and don't know what the fuck I'm talking about but here's what I remember. Tux's idea is that as TCP/IP is in the kernel why not have HTTP? There's no point running the overhead of Apache for serving static files and that's about all that Tux is good for. Situations such as serving all the images of your site, or static HTML -- Tux is good for this.
Big Bang really did feel too biblical for my liking.
>infects house with fleas.
That's not news for nerds. That's not stuff that matters.
Well Fiji has a little way to go yet with their coconut rocket. The natives trying to claim their rocket back from the people who made it was topped only by the exchange of 'monkey man' huewson for a larger gorilla with a cache of kalashninovs. Their campaign's forgetable slogan "we'll get into space soon, just come visit!" fooled no one.
I assume you meant here, buddy!
Karma?
/me pats you on the fucking back.
It's probably a little more correct to say that, although Berlin can do 3D, it's resolution independant and it's GUI is vector based. Unlike pixel based GUIs everything doesn't crunch down into the top left corner of the screen - consider it more like Quake in that a higher resolution adds more detail to the same physical. Current GUIs encourage using a low resolution to clearly see lettering - they don't fully exploit the maximum from your hardware. If anyone remembers that slashdot story a year ago about a 15" flatscreen monitor doing 3000x3000 (or something) and running MSWindows.. the widgets were so incredibly small it was unusable. It's like something you'd hear on the news - but pixel based GUIs are the y2k bug of interfaces.
The GUI is very NeXTish from the resizing widgets. And, as Apple kil^^bought NeXT it's very similar to MacOSX in it's graphical style. Berlin is more advanced than MacOSX though.
The main problem facing Berlin however, IMO, is hardware acceleration. There is no hardware acceleration for transparent GUIs (as proven in ArsTechnica's review of MacOSX's GUI and how Apple are talking to hardware manufacturers for a solution). This would involve a layered approach to 2D rendering. Anyway, drivers for Linux are only written for X (with few exceptions) - Berlin will have a difficult time unless they figure this out. Currently it's not hardware accelerated and is as slow as any SVGALib software, ugh. Berlin needs hardware acceration to the level of X at least. It would be nice to bypass X server entirely though (while providing a compatibility layer).
I would love for BeOS to have a vector based interface. Their GUI although very functional isn't nearly as advanced as the rest of their OS. They can't have a GUI object that isn't in a rectangular window for example and increasing font-sizes breaks their own bundled applications.
Berlin kicks arse though. It's a really exciting GUI project and I highly recommend developers joining in.
> VALunix could use my feces... How? (I'm serious)
Admit it - the only reason this got so far is because of whiny gits complaining of lost data. Imbeciles - all of them.
You spelt "rod" wrong.
Exactly - open source software only shines on popular hardware where the benefits of being open source (many eyes) can be exploited.
Hey, those were the days of 5meg games. 5megs / 14.4k = 347 minutes / 60 = 5.8 hours = overnight for a game. A day for a 20meg game (say, Doom2). People download distros on 56k modems/3 days -- this doesn't sound silly.
The nature of a login password is security through obscurity.
By merely existing a corporation is guilty of nothing. Your mindset is one of a bigot.