A power user can change the UI to do much of what he wants (including your alt-drag functionality if they want) by any number of third party utilities.
Can you point me to such a third-party utility? I couldn't find one.
In any case, that's irrelevant to my statement that the Microsoft UI is, IMHO, lousy.
Note that I wasn't saying the poster was *correct* (there's a reason why nobody except SCO has been stupid enough to try to fight the GPL in court); I was just trying to guess where the idea came from. Of course, maybe you weren't trying to say that, either.:-)
Do you know what "workflow" means? Microsoft UIs are perhaps nice for clueless users, but they're really hard to use efficiently on a day-to-day basis.
For example, in WindowMaker (and a few other X11 window managers that I've used) you can move a window by holding down Alt, grabbing anywhere in the window (with the left mouse button) and moving the window around. Likewise, to resize a window, you can hold hold down Alt, and drag any one of the four quadrants of a window. As far as I am aware, you still can't do anything like that in Windows; You have to grab the title bar or the window edges, which requires much more precise mouse movement. It's absolutely terrible with a trackpad. (I imagine some people can work around this by maximizing all their windows all the time, but I find that just slows me down even further.)
And don't even get me started on Microsoft's recent practice of moving icons around so that you can never get used to where they are...
It's nice that people come up with all sorts of theories as to why Microsoft's UIs should be nice and wonderful and easy to use, but my experience is that they are, as Daniel Dvorkin put it, lousy.
As long as our please-the-people Liberals are in power, I don't think you'll see too much activism. Now, if the Conservatives or NDP got the power... then you'd hear something.
It has nothing to do with the party in power, and everything to do with the fact that they have a minority government.
How do you know they don't exist? CRTs generate a lot of EM radiation, don't they? Granted, this doesn't *prove* you have a TV, but if the EM radiation characteristic of a TV isn't detected, then there's probably no point in knocking on your door.
if they're caught re-hiring someone with your skill set in the immediate future after laying you off, they're fucked.
My understanding was that it has nothing to do with re-hiring someone else...
As far as I know, "laying off" someone in Canada just boils down to giving them a severance package (which can be several weeks'/months' pay, depending on how long they've worked there, among other thing). When you fire someone with cause, you don't have to pay them for anything more than what they've already earned.
Are you aware that any above-average worm-writing criminal has more computational resources at his/her disposal than an an average government agency? Criminals are able to leverage the computing power of zillions of vulnerable Windows machines to break your data. White-hats and spooks typically aren't.
From what I understand, programming the Amiga was a lot easier than programming the PC at the time, and the Amiga was essentially a "heterogeneous machine", as you describe.
I think that comment could be clearer. Are you commenting that the program, as it stands, will crash if no files are open, or that you've written some code to prevent the program from crashing if no files are open?
*some* code should never be shared due to security reasons.
Yes, if the code is crap.
Of course, being subscribed to debian-security-announce doesn't exactly boost my confidence in the security of open-source software, either. If I see one more buffer overflow or temporary file vulnerability...
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Cool. Thanks for the link!
Can you point me to such a third-party utility? I couldn't find one.
In any case, that's irrelevant to my statement that the Microsoft UI is, IMHO, lousy.
I agree with your entire post.
Note that I wasn't saying the poster was *correct* (there's a reason why nobody except SCO has been stupid enough to try to fight the GPL in court); I was just trying to guess where the idea came from. Of course, maybe you weren't trying to say that, either. :-)
For example, in WindowMaker (and a few other X11 window managers that I've used) you can move a window by holding down Alt, grabbing anywhere in the window (with the left mouse button) and moving the window around. Likewise, to resize a window, you can hold hold down Alt, and drag any one of the four quadrants of a window. As far as I am aware, you still can't do anything like that in Windows; You have to grab the title bar or the window edges, which requires much more precise mouse movement. It's absolutely terrible with a trackpad. (I imagine some people can work around this by maximizing all their windows all the time, but I find that just slows me down even further.)
And don't even get me started on Microsoft's recent practice of moving icons around so that you can never get used to where they are...
It's nice that people come up with all sorts of theories as to why Microsoft's UIs should be nice and wonderful and easy to use, but my experience is that they are, as Daniel Dvorkin put it, lousy.
I think he's referring to Section 3c... which only applies to noncommercial distribution of binaries made from unmodified source code.
It has nothing to do with the party in power, and everything to do with the fact that they have a minority government.
Writing a worm does not make you a criminal any more than building a bomb makes you a criminal. It all depends on what you do with it, and perhaps your intent at the time.
How do you know they don't exist? CRTs generate a lot of EM radiation, don't they? Granted, this doesn't *prove* you have a TV, but if the EM radiation characteristic of a TV isn't detected, then there's probably no point in knocking on your door.
My understanding was that it has nothing to do with re-hiring someone else...
As far as I know, "laying off" someone in Canada just boils down to giving them a severance package (which can be several weeks'/months' pay, depending on how long they've worked there, among other thing). When you fire someone with cause, you don't have to pay them for anything more than what they've already earned.
The phrase started as "free (as in free beer)", but naturally the computer industry added its usual confusing baggage to it.
PCMCIA.
Are you aware that any above-average worm-writing criminal has more computational resources at his/her disposal than an an average government agency? Criminals are able to leverage the computing power of zillions of vulnerable Windows machines to break your data. White-hats and spooks typically aren't.
I think Switzerland does a better job of that, considering every citizen is expected to have military training and be serve in the Swiss military.
IIRC, he was fighting against a 'tyrant' had a functioning parliament.
XMMS 1.2.10's CD Audio Player module (which comes with it, at least on Debian) has that option. And it works, too.
The trick is to tell XMMS to play your CD-ROM mountpoint. i.e. For me, I go Play Directory -> /cdrom/, and it will play.
From what I understand, programming the Amiga was a lot easier than programming the PC at the time, and the Amiga was essentially a "heterogeneous machine", as you describe.
guh-noo-over-lih-nucks or guh-noo-on-lih-nucks or deb-ee-en works quite well. ;-)
You mean 504 miles per gallon...
I think that comment could be clearer. Are you commenting that the program, as it stands, will crash if no files are open, or that you've written some code to prevent the program from crashing if no files are open?
Ah, so it's no different than Kerberos? (Disclaimer: I haven't RTFA.)
On the other hand, lightning may have a tendency to hit improperly-installed copper...
What you describe is known as "source-available". Open source is a specific technical term that has a specific meaning.
Maybe it's those ceyboards you're using that are the problem. ;-)
Yes, if the code is crap.
Of course, being subscribed to debian-security-announce doesn't exactly boost my confidence in the security of open-source software, either. If I see one more buffer overflow or temporary file vulnerability...
Qmail is not open source. "No commercial use" is not open source. I don't remember about Aladdin but I think it's also not open source.