Not that screenshots would be in any way useful to see whether FC3 is in any way better than FC2, but you can always try to find the glitches:
up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
The sad thing is that the kids won't read this. After all, they don't like to read.
The really sad thing is that if you are after some Slashdot fame, you shouldn't be reading igt either. The point is writing those comments, not reading those stories. You might end up on page 2 if you read the story first.
There are at least two reasons why this would be a bad idea:
If you shut down the SandBox, spammers will go after your other pages. (I'm not saying that the NU people will do that, but there are plenty of other SandBox spamming morons out there).
The SandBox is for users to try stuff out. How can you try stuff on a page that doesn't work like all the other pages?
Moreover, the point is not that this and that should not be indexed or that this and that could be done differently. The point is that wikis are there for a purpose and that purpose is not that somebody can increase his damned page rank.
Of course, someone would need to register searchenginespammers.net and install a cgi there that would basically display a page describing the criminal practice of bulletin board/wiki spamming, and then lists all the referrer strings that have brought it to this particular page.
I haven't yet implemented the referrer strings thingy, and I registered chongqed.org instead of searchenginespammers.net, but the idea is the same.
There may be (as always) technical solutions to this problem. But they won't touch the core of the problem: There doesn't seem to be a free market for scientific equipment. If you get a grant, you buy what you need. You don't have to care about the price. And that's why scientists will shell out incredible amounts of money to some company for a bunch of wires they could buy at Radioshack.
I think that the same line of reasoning holds for the software scientists are using. As long as they do get their data they don't care about the quality or price of the software. They just use it.
If the scientific community would be more aware of the kind of shit they are putting up with right now, they could force the companies that live of their money to do almost anything.
Today, however, scientist are the most stupid flock of sheep you are likely to meet. Stupid software for incredible prices, and just think about the stupidity with which they publish their papers, granting publishers the right to hide their work from the public and sell it for (yes, again) incredible prices.
Um, excuse me? Don't you want to sell more albums and get more royalties?
What are you? Nuts? You honestly think they want to sell albums? Some kid might turn it into a bunch of MP3s! Selling albums, publishing the lyrics. What's next? Playing songs on the radio?
These people have the copyright. And it seems they want to keep it.
How many users are actually using ad-blocking sotware? Is that really the problem?
No. The problem is that the people that don't use such programs filter ads with their brain. You may be able to cram an ad down my browsers throat, but how do you force somebody to look at an ad, click it, and then actually buy something? No way.
And what about anti-discrimination laws? Software like that would effectively lock out the blind.
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What do we know about RMS's face? Maybe we'll know a lot more about it after they gave him a haircut and a shave before shoving him into that studio?
- up2date still doesn't seem to be able to determine the size of the updates: The individual packages are still labeled with "0 kB" and it still comes up with "Total size of selected packages to download: 22 kB". Yeah, right.
- The menu still categorizes stuff in strange ways. How many times have I searched for something in "System Settings" when it really was in "Preferences" or even "System Tools"?
- And don't you just love it to have a submenu in "Preferences" that is labeled "More Preferences"?
- Unfortunately, the screen shot of the sound preferences doesn't tell us whether it is now possible to disable sounds for specific events (or whether the default startup sound is still such a disgrace).
- Seems like there is only one "aesthetically pleasing" theme. Why include themes that are not "aesthetically pleasing"?
- The Service Configuration thingy still seems to be a usability nightmare (if you are geeky enough to notice that you can edit more than one runlevel).
- Add or Remove Applications! Seems you still cannot search for specific packages.
- IPv6 still enabled by default to foul up your web browsing?
Seems like all they did was update Gnome, KDE, and a bunch of applications. Seems like I'm not going to update.... my weight would probably double, too.
The sad thing is that the kids won't read this. After all, they don't like to read.
The really sad thing is that if you are after some Slashdot fame, you shouldn't be reading igt either. The point is writing those comments, not reading those stories. You might end up on page 2 if you read the story first.
I just read the bluecoat.com offers proxy servers that claim to do exactly what you want.
Moreover, the point is not that this and that should not be indexed or that this and that could be done differently. The point is that wikis are there for a purpose and that purpose is not that somebody can increase his damned page rank.
I don't get it. Spam poetry, spam letters, spam this, and spam that. Spam is a nuisance, always was, always will be.
If you don't want to delete your spam immediately and want to do something interesting with it, write abuse complaints.
But don't expect me to waste time reading spam that I already spent lots of time with by trying to filter and delete it.
Sorry, but I just don't get it.
...the author(s) of this virus were Windows zealots?
Suppose the BBC was correct with this:
We would have internet vandals that have some kind of reason for their vandalism.
But if they had no grudge at all? Just like the myriads of virus authors before them? Would that be any better?
A copy-paste and a treatment with the demoronizer:MS-HTML rules! Just don't try to render it.
100% Flamebait??? May be I should have noted that I myself am one of those stupid scientist. What we are doing is stupid. Trust me, I must know.
There may be (as always) technical solutions to this problem. But they won't touch the core of the problem: There doesn't seem to be a free market for scientific equipment. If you get a grant, you buy what you need. You don't have to care about the price. And that's why scientists will shell out incredible amounts of money to some company for a bunch of wires they could buy at Radioshack. I think that the same line of reasoning holds for the software scientists are using. As long as they do get their data they don't care about the quality or price of the software. They just use it. If the scientific community would be more aware of the kind of shit they are putting up with right now, they could force the companies that live of their money to do almost anything. Today, however, scientist are the most stupid flock of sheep you are likely to meet. Stupid software for incredible prices, and just think about the stupidity with which they publish their papers, granting publishers the right to hide their work from the public and sell it for (yes, again) incredible prices.
What are you? Nuts? You honestly think they want to sell albums? Some kid might turn it into a bunch of MP3s! Selling albums, publishing the lyrics. What's next? Playing songs on the radio?
These people have the copyright. And it seems they want to keep it.
How many users are actually using ad-blocking sotware? Is that really the problem?
No. The problem is that the people that don't use such programs filter ads with their brain. You may be able to cram an ad down my browsers throat, but how do you force somebody to look at an ad, click it, and then actually buy something? No way.
And what about anti-discrimination laws? Software like that would effectively lock out the blind.