In Linux you are not asked root's password to change desktop picture or installing random program and that's a major difference. Installed program has user account rights, but _that's the assumption_ and most programs respect that and, contrary to MS-systems, _can be installed and run_ just on user rights.
In MS-environment, _every_ program_ _must have_ (major) write-access to registry and system directories -> UAC every time you try to install or change anything. That's a _big_ difference. Like 1 to 100.
The idea that every program may write whatever they want in registry is outrageous. Only an idiot could design something like that. Using Ubuntu/Fedora, you install most of the programs using aptitude/yum and that requires root password. The idea that any program can write its configuration into a centralized system (the registry) could be better than having 100's of configuration files around in different places (The fact that any program can write in any part of the registry is obviously bad).
When I installed Vista, I had to click no less than 50 security confirmation dialog boxes (it's important to note that these were security dialog boxes) within the first hour or so in order to do simple, stupid stuff that clearly should not have needed confirmation. Stuff like changing my desktop background. Stuff like moving some documents around on a removable hard drive. Stuff like copying a line of text from an IE7 edit box. Stuff like pasting that line of text into a different IE7 edit box. Stuff like creating a new text file on my removable hard drive. And so on, and so on, ad nauseum.
I change the background and move and create files without security alerts showing up. And yes, the security thing is still on. I think there's something wrong with your Vista...
The fight between Atom and RSS2.0 was fueled for a while from (in my opinion) a clash of egos between Mark Pilgrim and Dave Winer. Nowadays heads are cooler and there might be some kind of standardization in the long end.
In passing, look at the interesting rant by Dave Winer in his blog not too long ago.
I must admit I did not really understand your system setup. It looks to me that you could replace it with a distributed versioning system, like SVK. Also probably of interest is
this article. It talks about Darcs, but most of the fundamental concepts about distributed versioning systems are the same (across SVK, darcs, monotone, arch, etc).
I don't know if that was a joke or not, but if you need LaTeX ona a LiveDVD you can use Quantian. I just downloaded the 0.6.9.3 (or try an older version for a LiveCD) and it' quite impressive. It also has AucTeX for Emacs and a bunch of other math packages I don't really use.
As much as I don't like defending France, the summary is misleading.
Mr. Jeanneney is not angry at Google. Actually he pointed out that the European Union (and France in particular) must follow Google's example and put on the Web the their own libraries so that it will be easy to access the works in not only english language, but also in french, italian, spanish and what not. I agree with him when he says that the preponderance of any single culture (in this case the Anglo-Saxon) is a BAD THING.
Actually the BNF already started with Gallica but there must be a common european effort.
And the people from Google should actually have read the editorial before answering questions.
If you like Miyazaki and are around Paris, you might want ot check out the exposition at the museum de la Monnaie (right in front of Pont Neuf). I went there yesterday and it is quite interesting: it is centered around a comparison of Miyazaki's work and Moebius' work (one of the best french cartoonist). The most interesting stuff to me was a cross-interview of Moebius and Miyazaki, good stuff. They also show other two documentaries on their respective work, but I don't know if it is worth it for 9 euros.
Having a 35mm CMOS has nothing to do with the image quality.
It does have something to do with quality TOO. In the current crop of 8 megapixel cameras (say Minolta A2) quality is not much better than in a 6 megapixel DSLR (which has a bigger sensor). Expecially at low ISOs, the smaller sensor exibits quite a bit more noise.
You can get a Rebel for $900.
You can hack it to be 10D for free.
Since this guy seems interested in photography, I 'd like to point out that NO, you DON'T get a 10D for the price of a Rebel. They have different casing and hardware (the 10D shoots more pics per sec and it's not plastic). And if he is really a beginner, he is more worrid about learning aperture/shutter/focus, rather then the most obscure function in that secondary submenu.
Does that mean their government controls what is printed in the newspaper?
All of the Italian media is under direct government control, mostly because it is controlled by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns all the media. Criticism of the government, and criticism of Berlusconi in particular, by the media, is not tolerated.
Informative?!?! The parent was modded informative? Are you kidding me? Has any of the moderators been to Italy lately? For god's sake, did you ever check the headlines of the major italian newspapapers? Informative?!?!
I don't even mind replying to the arguments because it would seem like I defend Berlusconi, while I think that the sooner he's gone the better.
Max Lyons produced a 1 Gigapixel image a while ago (see the slashdot article) but how many gigapixel is that? I would say at least 3 (1 byte per channel per pixel). And no, you can't say that Lyons' one doesn't count
beacuse it's a stiching, since this one has to go through Photoshop as well. On the other side, Lyons' one is MUCH cheaper to produce (but not much, it does require a wee bit of man-hours).
"You have to ask the question, `What's the point of painting a scene like this when you can reproduce it with no loss of resolution?'" says Conor Foy, a 36-year-old painter.
So, the point of paiting is making something that is as close as possible to a photography?
Maybe it's because I saw a Miro exposition just last Sunday, but the quote gave me a good laugh!
Yeah, they did. And 52 tests results were thrown out
for ranking the ref sample, i.e., if you're deaf enough to not recognize the ref we shouldn't trust your other rankings. See the discussion at HydrogenAudio.
name a "major browser" that won't support PNG. I don't know one. I use all PNG and have checked all my pages in enough "major" browsers to cover probably greater than 99% of people and they display fine.
Did you check transparency in Windows Explorer? As far as I know, it's not supported, unless you play some weird tricks. Or maybe you were making a joke, and I didn't get it.
Without going to such violent comparison, I believe a more fitting reference is photocopiers. You can photocopy a book and take it back, just like with files. And yes, that book could be protected by copyright, yet nobody is arresting (or even suing) people at Xerox. Does anybody know what are the rules governing this situation? Is the Staple's manager liable for allowing you to do this at a selfservice machine?
Well, RTFA you linked to. They arrested two users, but now they arrested the creator of the program in question. The legal situation of the two is quite different.
Actually, I browse the web, I use email and I need a calendar application. The Mozilla suite really fits my needs well, expecially because there are windows and linux versions which behave pretty much in the same way.
I'd rather see more time spent on improving the applications, rather than trying to figure out how to make them independent.
I use Mozilla Calendar (and I suppose Sunbird behaves the same) and you can. You could use the same file on some shared folder, or use the same file on some FTP repository, or I think you could even use Webdav do share calendars. For example you can subscribe to all the calendars at ICalShare.
For a good analisys of the relations between PKD and philosophy I strongly suggest reading
Visioni dal Futuro. Yes, it's in italian. Just learn the damn language, will ya?!
I tried and I tried and I tried..... but then I saw the light!! Typing of the Dead is a game (originally for Dreamcast I believe but it's been converted to PC) which teaches you how to type using the game House of the Dead (2, to be exact). When the zombies appear you have to type words to deatroy them. Sounds confusing? Here are some
screens. It also has a tutorial (which finger on which key) and in general it's lots of fun. I know I did!
I do wonder about the power supply though. Seeing that I can barely get a day's worth of stand-by on my cell phone with a tiny text screen
Dude, this is offtopic, but you really need a new cell if your battery life is so bad. Most of the new ones will give you several days of stand-by life.
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In MS-environment, _every_ program_ _must have_ (major) write-access to registry and system directories -> UAC every time you try to install or change anything. That's a _big_ difference. Like 1 to 100.
The idea that every program may write whatever they want in registry is outrageous. Only an idiot could design something like that. Using Ubuntu/Fedora, you install most of the programs using aptitude/yum and that requires root password. The idea that any program can write its configuration into a centralized system (the registry) could be better than having 100's of configuration files around in different places (The fact that any program can write in any part of the registry is obviously bad).
When I installed Vista, I had to click no less than 50 security confirmation dialog boxes (it's important to note that these were security dialog boxes) within the first hour or so in order to do simple, stupid stuff that clearly should not have needed confirmation. Stuff like changing my desktop background. Stuff like moving some documents around on a removable hard drive. Stuff like copying a line of text from an IE7 edit box. Stuff like pasting that line of text into a different IE7 edit box. Stuff like creating a new text file on my removable hard drive. And so on, and so on, ad nauseum.
I change the background and move and create files without security alerts showing up. And yes, the security thing is still on. I think there's something wrong with your Vista...The article in wikipedia on RSS is more balanced.
The fight between Atom and RSS2.0 was fueled for a while from (in my opinion) a clash of egos between Mark Pilgrim and Dave Winer. Nowadays heads are cooler and there might be some kind of standardization in the long end.
In passing, look at the interesting rant by Dave Winer in his blog not too long ago.
I guess it's some kind of modified Mercalli scale (which BTW it's older than the Richter scale).
I must admit I did not really understand your system setup. It looks to me that you could replace it with a distributed versioning system, like SVK. Also probably of interest is this article. It talks about Darcs, but most of the fundamental concepts about distributed versioning systems are the same (across SVK, darcs, monotone, arch, etc).
I don't know if that was a joke or not, but if you need LaTeX ona a LiveDVD you can use Quantian. I just downloaded the 0.6.9.3 (or try an older version for a LiveCD) and it' quite impressive. It also has AucTeX for Emacs and a bunch of other math packages I don't really use.
As much as I don't like defending France, the summary is misleading.
Mr. Jeanneney is not angry at Google. Actually he pointed out that the European Union (and France in particular) must follow Google's example and put on the Web the their own libraries so that it will be easy to access the works in not only english language, but also in french, italian, spanish and what not. I agree with him when he says that the preponderance of any single culture (in this case the Anglo-Saxon) is a BAD THING.
Actually the BNF already started with Gallica but there must be a common european effort.
And the people from Google should actually have read the editorial before answering questions.
If you like Miyazaki and are around Paris, you might want ot check out the exposition at the museum de la Monnaie (right in front of Pont Neuf). I went there yesterday and it is quite interesting: it is centered around a comparison of Miyazaki's work and Moebius' work (one of the best french cartoonist). The most interesting stuff to me was a cross-interview of Moebius and Miyazaki, good stuff. They also show other two documentaries on their respective work, but I don't know if it is worth it for 9 euros.
Well, it's gonna be paid for by the promotional department, since it looks like a publicity stunt...
Since this guy seems interested in photography, I 'd like to point out that NO, you DON'T get a 10D for the price of a Rebel. They have different casing and hardware (the 10D shoots more pics per sec and it's not plastic). And if he is really a beginner, he is more worrid about learning aperture/shutter/focus, rather then the most obscure function in that secondary submenu.
Informative?!?! The parent was modded informative? Are you kidding me? Has any of the moderators been to Italy lately? For god's sake, did you ever check the headlines of the major italian newspapapers? Informative?!?!
I don't even mind replying to the arguments because it would seem like I defend Berlusconi, while I think that the sooner he's gone the better.
Max Lyons produced a 1 Gigapixel image a while ago (see the slashdot article) but how many gigapixel is that? I would say at least 3 (1 byte per channel per pixel). And no, you can't say that Lyons' one doesn't count beacuse it's a stiching, since this one has to go through Photoshop as well. On the other side, Lyons' one is MUCH cheaper to produce (but not much, it does require a wee bit of man-hours).
So, the point of paiting is making something that is as close as possible to a photography?
Maybe it's because I saw a Miro exposition just last Sunday, but the quote gave me a good laugh!
Yeah, they did. And 52 tests results were thrown out for ranking the ref sample, i.e., if you're deaf enough to not recognize the ref we shouldn't trust your other rankings. See the discussion at HydrogenAudio.
Without going to such violent comparison, I believe a more fitting reference is photocopiers. You can photocopy a book and take it back, just like with files. And yes, that book could be protected by copyright, yet nobody is arresting (or even suing) people at Xerox. Does anybody know what are the rules governing this situation? Is the Staple's manager liable for allowing you to do this at a selfservice machine?
Well, RTFA you linked to. They arrested two users, but now they arrested the creator of the program in question. The legal situation of the two is quite different.
Actually, I browse the web, I use email and I need a calendar application. The Mozilla suite really fits my needs well, expecially because there are windows and linux versions which behave pretty much in the same way.
I'd rather see more time spent on improving the applications, rather than trying to figure out how to make them independent.
Just my 2c.
I use Mozilla Calendar (and I suppose Sunbird behaves the same) and you can. You could use the same file on some shared folder, or use the same file on some FTP repository, or I think you could even use Webdav do share calendars. For example you can subscribe to all the calendars at ICalShare.
For a good analisys of the relations between PKD and philosophy I strongly suggest reading Visioni dal Futuro. Yes, it's in italian. Just learn the damn language, will ya?!
He he he, I didn't read that far ;) So much for the subscribers to catch spelling errors before stories are posted for the general public.
Fix the spelling.
I tried and I tried and I tried..... but then I saw the light!! Typing of the Dead is a game (originally for Dreamcast I believe but it's been converted to PC) which teaches you how to type using the game House of the Dead (2, to be exact). When the zombies appear you have to type words to deatroy them. Sounds confusing? Here are some screens. It also has a tutorial (which finger on which key) and in general it's lots of fun. I know I did!