I don't know what driving school you went to, but a yellow light means "caution." What does that have to do with minimizing an application?
You apparently CAN see how these map to the functions of the window manager... so I really don't know what to say. It's just a bunch of senseless colors to me -- fortunately, the Mac OS gives you the option of switching them off.
I don't think it would be out of the question at all to compare benchmarks of an Apple machine with a street price comparable to the Intel machine used. After all, if you're going to buy a machine to run MySQL on and you have budget XX, why wouldn't you consider a Mac if it turned out to be faster?
If you set the preferences on the file browser to "Always open browse windows" (or something like that), then that's what it will do. Easy to solve -- though I agree, I expected something much more like Mac OS X's column view windows and less like the old Mac OS's habit of opening a new window every time you double click through the directory hierarchy.
It's still my favorite desktop distro, though. But then, I must confess I am a Gnome bigot.
Mothers aren't allowed to drive with children in the car?
Partitions between the driver's and passenger's side seats so that I don't distract myself by talking to the person in the car next to me?
Ban the car stereo?
Wouldn't it all be so much safer if we were all kept in our homes so that our annoying presences won't cause unhappy things in the lives of all those other, perfect people out there?
Wow, you and I seem to have completely opposite philosophies about what makes something crap. You seem to think that the public vote is enough to ensure that you see the creme-de-la-creme. I, on the other hand, think that the vote of the unwashed masses -- particularly "fans" -- is sure to bring you only the lowest common denominator, nine times out of ten.
Microsoft can make that much money from selling their OS is because their dominance in the market.
Whoah! So Microsoft gets rich by being the market leader in a huge product category, eh? Phone your local university immediately, I bet the economics professors will want to know about this...
we release commercial products, and certainly i dont want anyone to give them away for free, but if i found out someone had DIVX ripped my latest DVD release and subtitled it in japanese, it wouldnt exactly break my heart. in fact, i'd probably be excited, because if we had any sort of widespread downloading success in japan, those people [who dubbed my videos] would actually just be growing a potential market for me.. whereby someday we could release a native japanese version and sell 10x as many units because we are now that much more of a household name in japan.
Maybe, but it's tricky. If you let it go on too long, if the idea of downloading locally-translated versions of your products gets too entrenched. Then, by the time you actually get around to releasing your own official version, maybe nobody will want to buy it? They'll just keep getting the locally-produced equivalent for free and ignore your official releases, because of the price point. You'll have to crack down on the bootlegs sooner or later, especially if the video is ripped from your own DVDs and the quality is no worse than the "real thing" anyway.
Most of all, though, anime has much more interesting subject matter - stuff that makes you think. The characters are not one-dimensional, and are not all designed for gags as they are in 99% of "cartoons".
I've seen some decent anime. I've seen some crap anime. A lot of people think Ghost in the Shell is interesting and thought-provoking. I thought it was interminably dull. One of the things that makes most anime fans' opinions seem suspect to most people who aren't fans (but are open-minded) is that anime fans seem to think that anime is somehow excluded from Sturgeon's Law -- whereas I can assure you it is not.
I tried installing a Hoary snapshot and it was too much like stepping right back into beta territory for me. Sound didn't work anymore, just to give one example. I feel like I'm stuck -- I like what Ubuntu is doing in a lot of areas (UI, Project:Utopia, the pared-down install) but in other ways I guess I'm what you'd call a Gentoo guy and their release schedule isn't doing it for me (but I just don't have time to deal w/Gentoo). Is there a way to be sort of bleeding edge while still expecting the thing to boot and function? Hoary IS a second release, isn't it?
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at is that the applicant has said, "I spent a lot of time and money on school and we both know that I can get a job worthy of somebody with a doctorate, but I'm applying for your job monkeying with an SGI because nothing has turned up yet."
Part of the job of an HR person is to find applicants who will actually stick around.
i've worked quite a bit w/ labview in lab. its good software... and the hardware interfaces available are great.. (not to mention the FPGAs--of which i've only read about.. but it looks great on paper) but its not the best actor-oriented type programming environment i've come across
Wow, way to muddy the issue. I wasn't aware you were asking how to find work using the best actor-oriented type programming environment you've ever come across. I thought you wanted to get some computer-related work that was close to your field, so you could pay for your PhD. Which is it?
This is something I've been wondering about ever since I started using Ubuntu. I dig everything about it, except the fact that the Ubuntu repositories never seem to get updated when new versions of software come out. Is the official Ubuntu position that we should wait for all our software to get updated exactly once every six months? There's some sort of backports project going on now, but even that seems to be a little bit slow on the uptake. This might not be a problem if Ubuntu wasn't so insistent on using cutting-edge packages like Totem, where you really do want to get on board with the latest version as it appears.
Once you start installing updated software packages from their home sites, you kinda destroy the point of going with a particular distro in the first place, don't you? At the very least, you pretty much give up on its package distribution system. And yet, if somebody releases an update of an app that includes a bunch of security fixes, and Ubuntu's position is that "it'll get updated when Hoary comes out"... well, that strikes me as being Not Good Enough(tm). Can anyone clarify?
Yeah, but don't you get what I'm saying? Cosmo is a women's magazine, you expect it to have photos of women's clothes, women's make-up, etc. in it... therefore it wouldn't make much sense to put a guy on the cover. Similarly, the men's magazines you mention are bought for the sole reason that they're going to have pictures of scantily-clad women in them. Why wouldn't you advertise that on the cover? Seems like a stretch, though, to go from that to "men aren't allowed to be on magazine covers." I'd say that decision is up to the editorial staff of the magazine in question.
But true, this is weird. While guys like to watch sportsmen and actors (dominant males) and women like to watch actors and models (for sexual reasons), magazines with female photos on the cover sell better - and AFAIK it has been proven. Men are allowed on covers only if accompanied by a woman or with a baby or, seldom, if they are really, really mega celebrities.
You care to give some evidence of that? True, the magazines you see at the checkout stand at the supermarket primarily have pictures of women on them, but those are -- ahem -- women's magazines. Plenty of issues of GQ, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Newsweek, Wired, and even (yes) TV Guide go out with photographs of unaccompanied men on the covers.
Note none of the "noun" Dot Coms survived... Warehouse.com or Drugstore.com or Shoes.com.
Whaa--? Drugstore.com is still around. The Warehouse.com domain is owned by CDW, which bought MacWarehouse and MicroWarehouse, etc. I don't know if Shoes.com is the original, but it looks like an online shoestore to me. If the name recognition on "noun" dot-coms is so poor, you'd think they would have all just packed it in by now.
You've never used a GPS obviously. A GPS is a little gizmo that records tracks of where you have been, has accurate speed information, gives a route of where you are going, and shows maps.
Information any number of people would be thrilled to have.
And that, my friend, is why we have Bluetooth interfaces in cars.
Oh my god, how many times do we have to say it? People, running Windows software under WINE is not a solution. I say all Slashdotters should boycott these software vendors until we get a serious commitment from them to do true, native Linux ports of their products.
And for that matter, why aren't their open source alternatives to this software already? The open source community won't stay competitive by resting on its laurels.
I really don't know what you're talking about as it isn't related. Handsfree cell phone support via bluetooth in the car is one thing. Tying bluetooth to the navigation system is another.
Use bluetooth all you want to keep people from holding their phones and talking while driving and chewing gum. Keep it out of sensitive areas that are built into the car and are basically running whenever the car is on.
Whoah, wait a minute. You sure you're not just freaking out over nothing? Just for reference: On a car, a "navigation system" does not mean "steering and brakes." I don't classify GPS as a "sensitive area" like anything to compare with the on-board computers on airplanes. It's a little gizmo that shows you maps.
The point about GPS is the same as the point about mobile phones. (And I was talking about phones because the quote you referenced from the article said that's how the system gets infected, not via GPS.) Why NOT build a system that can accept input from anything from a standalone GPS to an iPaq, without requiring some weird proprietary interface? You seem to think it's inherently worse for people to hold their phone while they chew gum and drive at the same time than it is for people to fiddle with a GPS receiver while they drive and chew gum. I kinda doubt you actually own one of these systems or you might have more of a clue about what it's there for.
This is a car that is full of wires and is basically a large chunk of metal. Explain to me why we are using Bluetooth instead of a wired solution. I don't see the advantages here.
The advantage is that the industry doesn't have to spend the next five years haggling over a wired communications standard for mobile phones. Instead they use Bluetooth, which is here right now. Using Bluetooth also means that handset manufacturers don't need to build more than one digital interface into their equipment. One of the devices people want to use with their handsets is a cordless headset, so manufacturers have to support that device. Why would they want to build in an entirely separate, wired interface for cars? (And why would you want to pay for them to do that?)
What about politicians who don't want to be seen talking to certain people? Or corporate CEOs who don't want people to know which countries they have dealings with? Surely these are the types of people who are most likely to have the money and influence to abuse this technology?
Ah, but a community is more than any one organization. Thus, while Slashdot itself may be unwilling to address this problem, other members of the community may already have solved it for you. Try the SlashFix extension for Firefox.
Before you all start freaking out about evil corporations, corrupt governments, and everything else (too late)...
Understand that this is not some change that happened overnight while you were asleep. We have not had an "opt-in" copyright law in the United States since January 1, 1978. And the law was changed even before that -- Congress actually elected to amend the old copyright law in 1976. So I'd be willing to bet that this is the way copyrights have worked since before many of you were born.
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Hey buddy, he never promised you a Rosegarden. /ducks
I don't know what driving school you went to, but a yellow light means "caution." What does that have to do with minimizing an application?
... so I really don't know what to say. It's just a bunch of senseless colors to me -- fortunately, the Mac OS gives you the option of switching them off.
You apparently CAN see how these map to the functions of the window manager
I don't think it would be out of the question at all to compare benchmarks of an Apple machine with a street price comparable to the Intel machine used. After all, if you're going to buy a machine to run MySQL on and you have budget XX, why wouldn't you consider a Mac if it turned out to be faster?
If you set the preferences on the file browser to "Always open browse windows" (or something like that), then that's what it will do. Easy to solve -- though I agree, I expected something much more like Mac OS X's column view windows and less like the old Mac OS's habit of opening a new window every time you double click through the directory hierarchy.
It's still my favorite desktop distro, though. But then, I must confess I am a Gnome bigot.
Mothers aren't allowed to drive with children in the car?
Partitions between the driver's and passenger's side seats so that I don't distract myself by talking to the person in the car next to me?
Ban the car stereo?
Wouldn't it all be so much safer if we were all kept in our homes so that our annoying presences won't cause unhappy things in the lives of all those other, perfect people out there?
Wow, you and I seem to have completely opposite philosophies about what makes something crap. You seem to think that the public vote is enough to ensure that you see the creme-de-la-creme. I, on the other hand, think that the vote of the unwashed masses -- particularly "fans" -- is sure to bring you only the lowest common denominator, nine times out of ten.
Could it be ... could it be you've come up with a worthwhile reason why we have patents?
I tried installing a Hoary snapshot and it was too much like stepping right back into beta territory for me. Sound didn't work anymore, just to give one example. I feel like I'm stuck -- I like what Ubuntu is doing in a lot of areas (UI, Project:Utopia, the pared-down install) but in other ways I guess I'm what you'd call a Gentoo guy and their release schedule isn't doing it for me (but I just don't have time to deal w/Gentoo). Is there a way to be sort of bleeding edge while still expecting the thing to boot and function? Hoary IS a second release, isn't it?
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at is that the applicant has said, "I spent a lot of time and money on school and we both know that I can get a job worthy of somebody with a doctorate, but I'm applying for your job monkeying with an SGI because nothing has turned up yet."
Part of the job of an HR person is to find applicants who will actually stick around.
This is something I've been wondering about ever since I started using Ubuntu. I dig everything about it, except the fact that the Ubuntu repositories never seem to get updated when new versions of software come out. Is the official Ubuntu position that we should wait for all our software to get updated exactly once every six months? There's some sort of backports project going on now, but even that seems to be a little bit slow on the uptake. This might not be a problem if Ubuntu wasn't so insistent on using cutting-edge packages like Totem, where you really do want to get on board with the latest version as it appears.
... well, that strikes me as being Not Good Enough(tm). Can anyone clarify?
Once you start installing updated software packages from their home sites, you kinda destroy the point of going with a particular distro in the first place, don't you? At the very least, you pretty much give up on its package distribution system. And yet, if somebody releases an update of an app that includes a bunch of security fixes, and Ubuntu's position is that "it'll get updated when Hoary comes out"
Yeah, but don't you get what I'm saying? Cosmo is a women's magazine, you expect it to have photos of women's clothes, women's make-up, etc. in it ... therefore it wouldn't make much sense to put a guy on the cover. Similarly, the men's magazines you mention are bought for the sole reason that they're going to have pictures of scantily-clad women in them. Why wouldn't you advertise that on the cover? Seems like a stretch, though, to go from that to "men aren't allowed to be on magazine covers." I'd say that decision is up to the editorial staff of the magazine in question.
I think you mean "R'dmd," not "R'chmd."
Whaa--? Drugstore.com is still around. The Warehouse.com domain is owned by CDW, which bought MacWarehouse and MicroWarehouse, etc. I don't know if Shoes.com is the original, but it looks like an online shoestore to me. If the name recognition on "noun" dot-coms is so poor, you'd think they would have all just packed it in by now.
Oh my god, how many times do we have to say it? People, running Windows software under WINE is not a solution. I say all Slashdotters should boycott these software vendors until we get a serious commitment from them to do true, native Linux ports of their products.
And for that matter, why aren't their open source alternatives to this software already? The open source community won't stay competitive by resting on its laurels.
The point about GPS is the same as the point about mobile phones. (And I was talking about phones because the quote you referenced from the article said that's how the system gets infected, not via GPS.) Why NOT build a system that can accept input from anything from a standalone GPS to an iPaq, without requiring some weird proprietary interface? You seem to think it's inherently worse for people to hold their phone while they chew gum and drive at the same time than it is for people to fiddle with a GPS receiver while they drive and chew gum. I kinda doubt you actually own one of these systems or you might have more of a clue about what it's there for.
What about politicians who don't want to be seen talking to certain people? Or corporate CEOs who don't want people to know which countries they have dealings with? Surely these are the types of people who are most likely to have the money and influence to abuse this technology?
Ah, but a community is more than any one organization. Thus, while Slashdot itself may be unwilling to address this problem, other members of the community may already have solved it for you. Try the SlashFix extension for Firefox.
Before you all start freaking out about evil corporations, corrupt governments, and everything else (too late)...
Understand that this is not some change that happened overnight while you were asleep. We have not had an "opt-in" copyright law in the United States since January 1, 1978. And the law was changed even before that -- Congress actually elected to amend the old copyright law in 1976. So I'd be willing to bet that this is the way copyrights have worked since before many of you were born.