The problem is, half of those dialogs used GTK2's Yes/No buttons (red/green circle) and the other half used GNOME's yes/no buttons - green enter symbol and a red X. This is very inconsistent and confusing to the user.
Not nearly as confusing as why everyone insists on perpetuating the Yes/No/Cancel paradigm. I don't see why no one else is adopting the new Apple-style verb-based dialog buttons. For example, in a Linux install I might see:
"Your screen's fonts are of a really low resolution. Do you want to install 100 dpi X11 fonts? This will make the fonts look better, but you may want to not install the fonts to save disk space."...with the buttons "Yes" and "No". This sucks. You basically have to read the entire alert to even know what's being asked, and even then there's some ambiguity. Does "Yes" mean yes, I want to save disk space? Does "No" mean I don't care about my hard drive, and want pretty fonts?
A vastly more usable dialog would have buttons labeled "Install Fonts" and "Don't Install Fonts." No ambiguity, and the dialog itself is much easier to recognize.
Presumably there are companies that aren't this stupid. This was one credit card processing company; there are hundreds of corporations in the industry.
The issue is that malicious hackers don't go after the processors which are well protected, and a story like "Responsible Company Follows Security Guidelines; Doesn't Get Hacked" probably won't make it to the front page of the NYT.
The ESA has never actually completed a human-rated space craft, let alone sent someone into space...but when they do, they'll eat like kings!
(ok, ok, just kidding, don't mean to belittle the ESA astronauts who routinely contribute to Russian and American space missions, in addition to the ISS)
What possible reason does the FSF have to give the CDDL their approval? The foundation has made it clear that they do not wish people to use and/or contribute to non-GNU projects. Approval of the CDDL would very likely cause a number of people to abandon GNU/Linux.
It sounds, however, that the CDDL *is* compatible with other OSI-approved but not FSF-approved licenses (APSL, MPL). Maybe some sharing of code between these projects (say, Solaris code in Darwin? other way around?) would encourage a change in attitude at the FSF.
The correct analog (as in "analogy," not as in the opposite of digital) for this would be a mechanism for making an ATSC transmission. which could be tuned into from an OTA HDTV tuner. You could encode 1280x720 progressive ("720p") or 1920x1080 interlaced ("1080i") video signals into MPEG-2 then send that to an HDTV.
Not sure how far people have gotten rolling their own ATSC transmitters, tho.
Well, most games can't really be "beaten" in their multiplayer component. Keep playing, play some practice rounds. The idea is that essentially there will always be someone better than you, but getting a few kills now and then are fun.
In the server market, only 2 RISC chips remain. They are the PowerPC by IBM...
Outside of the Apple Xserve and a couple BladeCenter line machines, where has PowerPC ever been used in servers?
Perhaps you meant POWER (Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC)? Largely unrelated architecture. For what it's worth, POWER5 is actually doing extremely well. They continue to have extremely high performance and scalability, and with the Blue Gene project, will probably be used in the world's fastest computers for some time.
There are lots of real-world data manipulation situations where the SSE shuffle routines are useless; you need a real run-time permute function. AltiVec's vec_perm is like...insanely awesome.
Outside of that, and the fact that AV is one set of instructions, as opposed to like 5 in x86 land (MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, revisions), you're probably right, SSE can probably replace AltiVec pretty well. Still, some warning (like: DO NOT WRITE AltiVec CODE UNLESS YOU WANT TO REWRITE IT SOON) would have been appreciated.
Now if only it would play a CD without forcing me to enter a contractual relationship with iTunes (which I am not interested in doing) I'd be less disappointed in it.
You're aware you had to enter into a similar contract to like...boot the Mac? Remember that thing you clicked through right before it asked for your name? You know, with the bouncing blue thing?
This bill is no different then, let's say, forbidding the citizens of a municipality from forming their own fire department...and making only one company the legal provider of "fire protection services".
No one's house is going to burn down because they have no internet access. This is not an issue of public safety, which is the original reason why most municipalities switched from commercial firefighters to public ones.
In short, SBC is asking the state of Texas to provide them with a legally-approved monopoly. And the state is doing it.
No, that's what telephone companies have had for the last 100 years. SBC is asking to not have local government installs wireless networks with tax payer dollars (or, in other words, in form new monopolies with our money).
So...why not start a fund to provide developers with BitKeeper licenses? The amount of people making meaningful kernel contributions is limited, and the amount of time/money to switch to SVN or something would be huge.
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Bravo. Nicely done, ROX.
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Now, let's get more developers to follow this stuff.
The problem is, half of those dialogs used GTK2's Yes/No buttons (red/green circle) and the other half used GNOME's yes/no buttons - green enter symbol and a red X. This is very inconsistent and confusing to the user.
...with the buttons "Yes" and "No". This sucks. You basically have to read the entire alert to even know what's being asked, and even then there's some ambiguity. Does "Yes" mean yes, I want to save disk space? Does "No" mean I don't care about my hard drive, and want pretty fonts?
Not nearly as confusing as why everyone insists on perpetuating the Yes/No/Cancel paradigm. I don't see why no one else is adopting the new Apple-style verb-based dialog buttons. For example, in a Linux install I might see:
"Your screen's fonts are of a really low resolution. Do you want to install 100 dpi X11 fonts? This will make the fonts look better, but you may want to not install the fonts to save disk space."
A vastly more usable dialog would have buttons labeled "Install Fonts" and "Don't Install Fonts." No ambiguity, and the dialog itself is much easier to recognize.
Presumably there are companies that aren't this stupid. This was one credit card processing company; there are hundreds of corporations in the industry.
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The issue is that malicious hackers don't go after the processors which are well protected, and a story like "Responsible Company Follows Security Guidelines; Doesn't Get Hacked" probably won't make it to the front page of the NYT.
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Remember them...yes. I remember how they disbanded after 1948 thus were not relevant to the 1960s civil rights actions.
The ESA has never actually completed a human-rated space craft, let alone sent someone into space...but when they do, they'll eat like kings!
(ok, ok, just kidding, don't mean to belittle the ESA astronauts who routinely contribute to Russian and American space missions, in addition to the ISS)
That's a feature.
What possible reason does the FSF have to give the CDDL their approval? The foundation has made it clear that they do not wish people to use and/or contribute to non-GNU projects. Approval of the CDDL would very likely cause a number of people to abandon GNU/Linux.
It sounds, however, that the CDDL *is* compatible with other OSI-approved but not FSF-approved licenses (APSL, MPL). Maybe some sharing of code between these projects (say, Solaris code in Darwin? other way around?) would encourage a change in attitude at the FSF.
PAL is also interlaced.
The correct analog (as in "analogy," not as in the opposite of digital) for this would be a mechanism for making an ATSC transmission. which could be tuned into from an OTA HDTV tuner. You could encode 1280x720 progressive ("720p") or 1920x1080 interlaced ("1080i") video signals into MPEG-2 then send that to an HDTV.
Not sure how far people have gotten rolling their own ATSC transmitters, tho.
Okay, by "largely unrelated" I guess I really meant in target market. Technologically they are of course nearly identical.
To clarify, most POWER and PowerPC customers and markets are largely unrelated. The ISAs and chip designs are quite similar.
Well, most games can't really be "beaten" in their multiplayer component. Keep playing, play some practice rounds. The idea is that essentially there will always be someone better than you, but getting a few kills now and then are fun.
Like real sports, I guess.
In the server market, only 2 RISC chips remain. They are the PowerPC by IBM...
Outside of the Apple Xserve and a couple BladeCenter line machines, where has PowerPC ever been used in servers?
Perhaps you meant POWER (Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC)? Largely unrelated architecture. For what it's worth, POWER5 is actually doing extremely well. They continue to have extremely high performance and scalability, and with the Blue Gene project, will probably be used in the world's fastest computers for some time.
Why are you perpetuating this "golf is a sport" myth?
Google is now worth about as much as Sri Lanka. (population: 20 million)
In other words, you want to download all the music they have in one month, for $10.
Do you even have the disc space for that?
They spend all this time asking Apple to open up, then they respond by putting WebKit on a CVS server instead of a Subversion one.
The lack of a permute unit is HUGE.
There are lots of real-world data manipulation situations where the SSE shuffle routines are useless; you need a real run-time permute function. AltiVec's vec_perm is like...insanely awesome.
Outside of that, and the fact that AV is one set of instructions, as opposed to like 5 in x86 land (MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, revisions), you're probably right, SSE can probably replace AltiVec pretty well. Still, some warning (like: DO NOT WRITE AltiVec CODE UNLESS YOU WANT TO REWRITE IT SOON) would have been appreciated.
Start buying more software from Taiwanese companies.
Then, the whole car crashed...
Do you see what happens when you play with your cell phone instead of look at the road?!
True, but everyone should use 3ivx.
It's really plays back MPEG-4 much better than Apple's codec.
Yes, perhaps "Au Revoir for UPnP" would have been a better name for this release.
"Extensive Really Simple Syndication?" So it's both extensive (Large in extent, range, or amount) and simple (composed of only one element). Hmm.
Kinda like the MPEG-4 "Advanced Simple Profile," maybe.
Judging by Dvorak's track record, this essentially guarantees years of more innovation in the game industry.
Now if only it would play a CD without forcing me to enter a contractual relationship with iTunes (which I am not interested in doing) I'd be less disappointed in it.
You're aware you had to enter into a similar contract to like...boot the Mac? Remember that thing you clicked through right before it asked for your name? You know, with the bouncing blue thing?
This bill is no different then, let's say, forbidding the citizens of a municipality from forming their own fire department...and making only one company the legal provider of "fire protection services".
No one's house is going to burn down because they have no internet access. This is not an issue of public safety, which is the original reason why most municipalities switched from commercial firefighters to public ones.
In short, SBC is asking the state of Texas to provide them with a legally-approved monopoly. And the state is doing it.
No, that's what telephone companies have had for the last 100 years. SBC is asking to not have local government installs wireless networks with tax payer dollars (or, in other words, in form new monopolies with our money).
So...why not start a fund to provide developers with BitKeeper licenses? The amount of people making meaningful kernel contributions is limited, and the amount of time/money to switch to SVN or something would be huge.
Actually, I think this was a case of social engineering. He actually was able to convince the crowd that security and technology are unrelated.
Mitnick, you are a clever one.