I don't know -- if you started watching the right movies. For instance, let's say one day you sat down for a nice marathon of movies. You start out with the Seige, then Collateral Damage, Air Force One, Executive Decision, True Lies, In the Line of Fire, and the The Peacemaker. Next day, the cops show up at your door and arrest you as a one-man "sleeper cell." Coincidence, anyone?
The need for opt-in laws about this kind of thing. Oh wait, the government wants to steal this info from the companies too, so I guess they'd never go for that kind of thing.
Tell me this - how did you overcome KDE's problem with seperate windows. I've noticed that Konq takes a full 1-2 seconcds to instantiate (compared to about 1/3 of a second for Windows), so browsing thru a file system heirarchy is an excercise is patience. Is the problem KDE in general, or some obscure setting?
Also, call me picky, but in windows, the mouse is linear and has a threshold of 0. In KDE, I set it to be linear and the threshold as low as it will go but it still isn't enough. If I only want the mouse to move a small distance, it doesn't register at all. It's small things like these that drive me crazy.
To all of you Linux UI developers out there...
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...who like to pretend that the last 30 years of UI research never happened, I'd just like to say please take some notes. Not that KDE and Gnome have to look like a cartoon (ala the default Windows settings), but that is something Windows DEFINETELY does better.
I am going to venture a wild guess and say that the licensing costs to run windows on this thing would be the #1 reason why Mr. Allen is using linux...
Because the truth has an unforunate tendancy to come out, eventually, Today's most tightly guarded secrets are the stuff tomorrow's headlines are made of.
They are going to argue that they are cheaper than a free operating systems with relatively few major security holes compared. Kind of reminds me of that stereotypical phyiscs professor who just throws terms into equations and whatnot.
Hey, before you discount the idea of bombing iraq, remember - all that smoke from what is left of their cities will help to block out light from the sun, which will reduce the heat the earth recives, and prevent global warming. I like how you think...
So sally breaks up with don, whose weblog indicates he's now really hot for janet, could care less about Don but really like Barry, who donkey punched Jane, who is best friend with Sally. Hrm... makes it so much clearer now
Oh, right... the music companies are going to require that everyone now dump the last 50 years worth of speakers and buy a whole new system just for the honor of playing their latest crap... sorry, buddy, but this is not going to happen, ever.
1) Copy-protection on CDs is a losing battles. Computers can always be modified to get around copy protection schemes. And even if they can't, there will always be the "analog" hole. I can always take an embedded device like a CD player and pipe it straight into my sound card. 99.9% fidelity, copy-free recording.
2) None of it matters, because if one person buys a copy protected CD, does the above, and puts it on p2p, the pee-in-the-pool effect kicks in, and the copyprotection-free version will be around forever.
But if you stop buying the CDs they think it's because we prefer to pirate them instead. Then they try to pass more laws to prevent legitimate hardware and software usage.
First there was the pumpkin PC, then the Dune book, and now a story that takes pertains only to NJ. I am officially suing slashdot for breach of contract.
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A girl down the hall in my dorm put this on her door. I write back (on her marker board) that it was cute, but please don't remind me of things I have to deal with in my major;-)
Maybe at the smaller level, yes. But I swear, the bigger a company gets, the more evil it gets. Seriously, once they get big enough, they don't feel compelled to obey national laws anymore, and I think it's high time someone let them know that that isn't the case. I am sure there are big companies that do good things, but the only reason they are doing it is so people will give them positive brand-name recognition.
It's not an anti-competitive market in this case, as you point out. The video game market is about as cut-throat as it gets.
With that said, every one of these scandals where companies are found out to be breaking the law in order to increase the bottom dollar makes me want to start levying incredibly excessive penalties, as a way of "encouraging" the other companies not to even think about this crap.
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I don't know -- if you started watching the right movies. For instance, let's say one day you sat down for a nice marathon of movies. You start out with the Seige, then Collateral Damage, Air Force One, Executive Decision, True Lies, In the Line of Fire, and the The Peacemaker. Next day, the cops show up at your door and arrest you as a one-man "sleeper cell." Coincidence, anyone?
The need for opt-in laws about this kind of thing. Oh wait, the government wants to steal this info from the companies too, so I guess they'd never go for that kind of thing.
Tell me this - how did you overcome KDE's problem with seperate windows. I've noticed that Konq takes a full 1-2 seconcds to instantiate (compared to about 1/3 of a second for Windows), so browsing thru a file system heirarchy is an excercise is patience. Is the problem KDE in general, or some obscure setting?
Also, call me picky, but in windows, the mouse is linear and has a threshold of 0. In KDE, I set it to be linear and the threshold as low as it will go but it still isn't enough. If I only want the mouse to move a small distance, it doesn't register at all. It's small things like these that drive me crazy.
...who like to pretend that the last 30 years of UI research never happened, I'd just like to say please take some notes. Not that KDE and Gnome have to look like a cartoon (ala the default Windows settings), but that is something Windows DEFINETELY does better.
20 minutes waiting just to download the 8 second "Ifilm.com" ad
I am going to venture a wild guess and say that the licensing costs to run windows on this thing would be the #1 reason why Mr. Allen is using linux...
If I could mod you up to +10, I would do it in a split second.
Because the truth has an unforunate tendancy to come out, eventually, Today's most tightly guarded secrets are the stuff tomorrow's headlines are made of.
Uh, forgive my ignorance, but to what is that referring?
...that this little incident will not be mentioned in the next edition of the Cathedral and the Baazar?
Quicktime sucks...
They are going to argue that they are cheaper than a free operating systems with relatively few major security holes compared. Kind of reminds me of that stereotypical phyiscs professor who just throws terms into equations and whatnot.
What if tux sported a bindi?
Hey, before you discount the idea of bombing iraq, remember - all that smoke from what is left of their cities will help to block out light from the sun, which will reduce the heat the earth recives, and prevent global warming. I like how you think...
So sally breaks up with don, whose weblog indicates he's now really hot for janet, could care less about Don but really like Barry, who donkey punched Jane, who is best friend with Sally. Hrm... makes it so much clearer now
Oh, right... the music companies are going to require that everyone now dump the last 50 years worth of speakers and buy a whole new system just for the honor of playing their latest crap... sorry, buddy, but this is not going to happen, ever.
1) Copy-protection on CDs is a losing battles. Computers can always be modified to get around copy protection schemes. And even if they can't, there will always be the "analog" hole. I can always take an embedded device like a CD player and pipe it straight into my sound card. 99.9% fidelity, copy-free recording.
2) None of it matters, because if one person buys a copy protected CD, does the above, and puts it on p2p, the pee-in-the-pool effect kicks in, and the copyprotection-free version will be around forever.
But if you stop buying the CDs they think it's because we prefer to pirate them instead. Then they try to pass more laws to prevent legitimate hardware and software usage.
A little of column A, a little of column B
You took the words right out of my mouth (and I want them back!)
Ok, Sun sues Microsoft in a long and costly trial, and and wins $1 billion end (maybe). Microsoft still has $30 Billion in the bank.
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First there was the pumpkin PC, then the Dune book, and now a story that takes pertains only to NJ. I am officially suing slashdot for breach of contract.
A girl down the hall in my dorm put this on her door. I write back (on her marker board) that it was cute, but please don't remind me of things I have to deal with in my major ;-)
Fair enough, the stories don't have much shelf life (why don't we go kill some pre-teen beauty pagent winner and give them something to talk about)
But nowadays, it seems there are so many that they just keep coming out of the woodwork.
Maybe at the smaller level, yes. But I swear, the bigger a company gets, the more evil it gets. Seriously, once they get big enough, they don't feel compelled to obey national laws anymore, and I think it's high time someone let them know that that isn't the case. I am sure there are big companies that do good things, but the only reason they are doing it is so people will give them positive brand-name recognition.
It's not an anti-competitive market in this case, as you point out. The video game market is about as cut-throat as it gets.
With that said, every one of these scandals where companies are found out to be breaking the law in order to increase the bottom dollar makes me want to start levying incredibly excessive penalties, as a way of "encouraging" the other companies not to even think about this crap.