What happened to the "If I want to try it, I must be prepared to work for it?"
Impressive: in one sentence you simultaneously proved the parent's point and summed up why FOSS still isn't displacing proprietary software on the desktop.
Why should KDE developers give a flying fuck whether you try their BETA release or not?
Well looking at it logically, if they don't want people to try it they wouldn't have released a public beta. And applying more of this logic thing, if the installation procedure is so arcane that it discourages non-programmers from trying it then porting is a complete waste of time, because it does nothing to expand the user base (and there's no point developing for a platform that nobody uses). The parent post was lamenting the fact that even final release OSS does not often come in convenient installers, and frankly if the KDE devs have your attitude it's not going to happen...foot, meet howitzer.
$WHO is making you do $WHAT again?
Precisely, and that silence you hear is >90% of the software market not stampeding to use free and open source software. Cost isn't a barrier, file compatability is almost a non-issue, quality isn't under dispute, so clearly there must be some other reason for this. What's left?
Everyone always tells me that the way Linux and Windows handle shared libraries is wrong, and that Apple has fixed it through the magic of application bundles. If that is the case, then how do you explain this?
Easily: QuickTime is still Windows/Linux-like shared libraries (possibly because it's the media subsystem and must be available to the OS and multiple applications simultaneously without conflicts*). The QuickTime Player is just a front end which doesn't include the libraries as part of the application bundle (they're in/System/Library/Frameworks and */Library/QuickTime). After Effects doesn't contain it's own set of QT libraries either, hence the problem.
If anything, this is proof that the bundle approach is sound.
*Disclaimer: the last time I read any developer notes was late last century (!), so I could easily be wrong about this reason.
Is it only to get rich tourists to a high altitude to see what shape the earth is?
I can think of the odd oil baron who would be genuinely surprised to find it's round...
Come to think of it, perhaps a bit of perspective wouldn't hurt those on the rich list: I sometimes think that some people really need to be reminded that no matter how much money they have, they're still inconsequential bugs destined to be squashed on the windscreen of time.
I see what they're doing. By making people choose between Britney Spears and Barry Manilow they're attempting to prove that popular music is no worse now than it's ever been.
It was a joke of misdirection: take a quick glance at the name...OK, it was pretty feeble.
FWIW, I'm a black haired, brown eyed, monitor-tanned anglo-celtic hippie with a beard thick enough to support a set of screwdrivers, who's been mistaken for everything (geographically) from Pakistani to Spanish by natives of those countries (I can't explain that...maybe I have a generic face). You'd think from that description I'd be stopped by security on a variety of suspicions (even before 9/11), but in reality it never seems to happen, so in all seriousness I'd agree that behaviour is indeed the most significant marker.
That's why I'm training a terrorist cell that dresses as 19th century English gentry, resplendent in houndstooth caps and handlebar moustaches atop penny farthing bicycles.
They'll never suspect a thing until it's too late. BWAHAHAHA!
Okay, so how does an asteroid impact on Mars affect Earth???
Three possible answers:
1) Not at all.
2) We observe, and learn more about both asteroid impacts and what Mars is made of; the sum of human knowledge is increased (in other words, no effect for those who don't consider knowledge intrinsically valuable).
3) Matter ejected into space by the impact eventually makes it to Earth, as has happened in the past; the effect at this stage would be rather hard to predict without observation.
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Show me ONE EXAMPLE of someone held in Gitmo who WAS NOT an ununiformed combatant fighting our troops or implementing terror attacks.
Mamdouh Habib.
You were saying?
someone needs to come up with a metric of flaw exposure per unit time.
I propose the Ballmer Scale, where weekly flaw reports are averaged to produce a rating in chairs.
What happened to the "If I want to try it, I must be prepared to work for it?"
Impressive: in one sentence you simultaneously proved the parent's point and summed up why FOSS still isn't displacing proprietary software on the desktop.
Why should KDE developers give a flying fuck whether you try their BETA release or not?
Well looking at it logically, if they don't want people to try it they wouldn't have released a public beta. And applying more of this logic thing, if the installation procedure is so arcane that it discourages non-programmers from trying it then porting is a complete waste of time, because it does nothing to expand the user base (and there's no point developing for a platform that nobody uses). The parent post was lamenting the fact that even final release OSS does not often come in convenient installers, and frankly if the KDE devs have your attitude it's not going to happen...foot, meet howitzer.
$WHO is making you do $WHAT again?
Precisely, and that silence you hear is >90% of the software market not stampeding to use free and open source software. Cost isn't a barrier, file compatability is almost a non-issue, quality isn't under dispute, so clearly there must be some other reason for this. What's left?
Everyone always tells me that the way Linux and Windows handle shared libraries is wrong, and that Apple has fixed it through the magic of application bundles. If that is the case, then how do you explain this?
/System/Library/Frameworks and */Library/QuickTime). After Effects doesn't contain it's own set of QT libraries either, hence the problem.
Easily: QuickTime is still Windows/Linux-like shared libraries (possibly because it's the media subsystem and must be available to the OS and multiple applications simultaneously without conflicts*). The QuickTime Player is just a front end which doesn't include the libraries as part of the application bundle (they're in
If anything, this is proof that the bundle approach is sound.
*Disclaimer: the last time I read any developer notes was late last century (!), so I could easily be wrong about this reason.
We need more celebrities and boy band members in space.
Not on this rocket: it's designed to come back.
Is it only to get rich tourists to a high altitude to see what shape the earth is?
I can think of the odd oil baron who would be genuinely surprised to find it's round...
Come to think of it, perhaps a bit of perspective wouldn't hurt those on the rich list: I sometimes think that some people really need to be reminded that no matter how much money they have, they're still inconsequential bugs destined to be squashed on the windscreen of time.
...eventually everyone would believe the earth is immune to NEO.s.
It may be too late already.
I see what they're doing. By making people choose between Britney Spears and Barry Manilow they're attempting to prove that popular music is no worse now than it's ever been.
A jigger is a measure used for alcoholic drinks, so rejiggering must be using on on a repeated basis.
That's my kind of lunch. Cheers!
No, it's not a mistake, Europe had Windows 97.
It's factually accurate, but that doesn't mean it's not a mistake.
It was a joke of misdirection: take a quick glance at the name...OK, it was pretty feeble.
FWIW, I'm a black haired, brown eyed, monitor-tanned anglo-celtic hippie with a beard thick enough to support a set of screwdrivers, who's been mistaken for everything (geographically) from Pakistani to Spanish by natives of those countries (I can't explain that...maybe I have a generic face). You'd think from that description I'd be stopped by security on a variety of suspicions (even before 9/11), but in reality it never seems to happen, so in all seriousness I'd agree that behaviour is indeed the most significant marker.
That's why I'm training a terrorist cell that dresses as 19th century English gentry, resplendent in houndstooth caps and handlebar moustaches atop penny farthing bicycles.
They'll never suspect a thing until it's too late. BWAHAHAHA!
And it's a hell of a lot more positive than profiling on race or blocking people from flying based on their name.
I haven't been able to fly for years without hassles, I suspect because of my vaguely mediterranian appearance.
Yours,
Tim E. Bombe
I suspect it is all to do with the universal culture of being a grandmother.
Good. The sooner they profile and lock up all those grandmothers the sooner we can stop worrying about Linux user friendliness.
*ducks*
Resolve to cross more things off your "Before I Die..." list.
If you make dying the priority you can cross the rest off at once (nothing personal, just pointing out the efficient route).
WTF is a "linkjack"?
Zelda porn...?
Engineers talk to women all the time. Unfortunately there is no engineering solution to getting them to respond...
You'd look silly wearing a washer and dryer.
Okay, so how does an asteroid impact on Mars affect Earth???
Three possible answers:
1) Not at all.
2) We observe, and learn more about both asteroid impacts and what Mars is made of; the sum of human knowledge is increased (in other words, no effect for those who don't consider knowledge intrinsically valuable).
3) Matter ejected into space by the impact eventually makes it to Earth, as has happened in the past; the effect at this stage would be rather hard to predict without observation.
Now, either she was tired, or that's something that happens sometimes. Anybody know?
I can think of a possible reason...
Look at it this way: one less chunk of rock hurtling around the solar system is one less that can eventually hurtle into Earth.
One down, 500 trillion to go...
Kitsch, perhaps. Geek, perhaps not.
Marsia, Marsia, Marsia!
(And with that Brady bunch quote goes the last shreds of my geek cred.)
Sure something of more substance could have been #10.
If it had substance, surely it wouldn't be vapour...
...did it.
Sorry to keep everyone in suspense, I need sleep.