Here we go again - what part of "monopoly" do you people not understand? When you are a money-grubbing monopolistic power with a strangle-hold on an entire industry the rules are different. We don't have to be "fair" to MS, that's not how it works.
WinAmp and VLC could do things years ago that this sorry excuse of 'convienienceware' will ever be able to do. No?
By far, my favorite video player is Windows Media Player 6 - it's tiny, does just what it's supposed to, and nothing else. Of course ffmpeg does all the heavy lifting, but WMP6 just has a very clean and snappy interface.
I tried VLC - its interface is somewhat haphazard, but more annoyingly, extremely slow and unresponsive (plus its scaling looks kinda weird, but that could be just me).
And WinAmp is second to none (or maybe a very few) for music, but it's video support is laughable (kinda like when IrfanView tries to display text files - just leave it alone, it's not for you!).
So, while WMP7+ is horrid, horrid software, I wouldn't say that the clear winner on Windows is a Free alternative. (Linux is a different story: I think it's the height of irony that the best all-around desktop multimedia experience right now is Xine on Linux:), speaking subjectively, of course )
Sure, it's neat - giant touchscreen with multiple points of contact and gestures that zoom and pan.
And this is what's going to "change the way we interact with computers"? Odd as it may sound, most application interfaces don't revolve around zooming and panning; there are considerably harder problems left to solve.
Funny he should mention RSI too, because that keyboard that will free you from the bonds of conformity, and that's displayed on a hard surface, will kill your wrists in a matter of months.
The thing is great for the Earth-type applications, but that's about it. It's cool technology - why must every innovation promise to change all future computer interactions?
(btw, if that picture viewer's "Pile of Crap" metaphor is where UI design is headed, I'm never upgrading again. I have my desk to act as a pile of crap, it won't make me feel more comfortable with my computer if it emulates that)
Under certain circumstances (hadn't bothered to replicate it exactly yet), after you Ctrl-T to open a new tab, the URL bar is either not focused, or is focused and has a cursor, but typing produces no effect. So an annoying extra click is needed.
So far, this has not been a show-stopper. Oh, and the option to turn off the ridiculous new tab behaviour should be in the Options, not just about:config.
About the list - most of the legitimate complaints are about the kinds of things you would expect from a.0 release. So the solution is to wait for 3.0? A much more drastic change? How about 2.0.1 or 2.1.1 - I know, crazy talk!
(can't really comment on the various memory issues, I usually have 4 or 5 windows with 20+ tabs, which variously uses 300-400MB; doesn't seem like all that much, all things considered)
Considering he "materially and willfully" aided the enemies of the United States. Just saying.
Oh, and this is rich: "the best outcome of Mr. Soghoian's ill-considered demonstration would be for the Department of Homeland Security to close these loopholes immediately."
If that's the outcome, then it was an excellently considered demonstration.
We are still working our way through this one. About 1/4 done, I'd say. Probably because freedom of the press is so salient an issue in the public eye, so they started with the other stuff.
Remember, there is no such thing as the Linux operating system.
You know, normal people would read that as "Oracle will be providing full enterprise support for [a Linux distribution]."
If an article blurb says that Product X has been "released for Windows", would you require it to specify "XP, 2000, but not Me, 98, or 3.1"?
The word "Linux" is used to refer to an entire distribution. The Linux kernel is usually referred to as just that, almost never simply as "Linux". And finally, there is no way that phrasing could indicate, to anyone, that Oracle plans to support anything but a specific distribution of Linux.
To put it differently - get a life.
(now, I am the first one to jump all over people for using obscure phraseology incorrectly, but this goes beyond pedantry - you are making up ambiguity where there is none)
Ouch. Since when are worn-out jokes not funny on Slashdot? After all if BSD is dying on your beowulf cluster in Soviet Russia, does Linux not run you?
Well, not funny as it may be, I don't think it reflects on my understanding of Debian's naming decisions. Actually, I'm not sure what nuance there is miss with this one, though - they call it GNU/Linux because it contains a lot of code from GNU and Linux - doesn't seem all that "controversial".
I hear this repeated a lot. It's not true. If you allow your mark to become generic you can lose your right to it.
So, genericide is one way to lose your trademark, but that doesn't mean that other's don't exist. Most layman explanations of trademark law I've seen say that failing to police the use of your mark can lead to "unintentional abandonment", or somesuch.
why is Debian "wasting" time patching Firefox when they could be I don't know, releasing a "stable" that isn't 10 years old?
Because they believe their licensing terms are incompatible with Firefox's licensing terms?
And if you think that the reason the "stable" packages are so old is because of lack of effort on the part of the devs, you are seriously missing the point.
(people who run Debian, but clearly want to have Gentoo or Ubuntu, baffle me)
I just glanced over the thing, and it says that at a certain point Spamhaus' laywers stopped showing up to court, so the judgement defaulted to the plaintiff. I'm pretty sure the judge didn't have a lot of leeway to do any judging at that point.
(oh yeah, great job using "mail", "judge", and "bomb" together - enjoy being an enemy combatant... ah crap! I'll see you at Gitmo...)
Probably has to do with memory/cache access and total available bandwidth between the cores. Memory architecture seems to be the one area where the Core still can't touch the Opteron.
Until and unless he's formally charged (indicted), the right to an attorney doesn't actually attach
Huh, never realized that you are not charged until you've been arraigned. I'm sure I am not the only one who always assumed that you are charged when you get Mirandized (after all, they are supposed to tell you what you are "charged" with at that point.
Thanks for the explanation - everything I know about law comes from watching Special Victims Unit (which essentially boils down to: "Mariska Hargitay is exteremely hot.").
But it's still true that he can only be held for a very limited amount of time, without being charged, right?
Du Bois complained today that police had not allowed him to meet with his client after the arrest. He said investigators were keeping Reiser in isolation.
Did the whole "everybody is an Enemy Combatant if we say so" thing start already and no one told me? What exactly is this "isolation" where you can't contact your laywer?
and you're wrong in that the abstract turing machine can, indeed, represent whatever is going on at those lower biological levels, since, they're stateful.
Depends on what you mean by "represent". A TM can certainly simulate (hypothetically) any biological process (unless you believe in God), but "represent" is just too vague in this conext. The OP was trying to liken different parts of a particular, abstract, TM construct (head + tape + fsm) with different components of the Central Dogma - and that's silly, was all I was saying.
I bet almost all of you windows folks are running XP at this point.
And what do you know, five years later and (almost) at the next version release, and here I am still on 2k. More importantly, every single desktop where I work is still on 2k.
Could be different with Vista though. The problem with XP was that it is not different from Windows 2000 in any substantial way, just uglier and a little less stable. Vista looks like it actually might offer something new.
Or maybe it's just because even 5 years is an unreasonably short upgrade cycle for many environments. I personally will be swtiching to Vista when EVE needs it to look pretty:)
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Teh Evil!
Here we go again - what part of "monopoly" do you people not understand? When you are a money-grubbing monopolistic power with a strangle-hold on an entire industry the rules are different. We don't have to be "fair" to MS, that's not how it works.
Is this really that hard to grasp?
WinAmp and VLC could do things years ago that this sorry excuse of 'convienienceware' will ever be able to do. No?
:), speaking subjectively, of course )
By far, my favorite video player is Windows Media Player 6 - it's tiny, does just what it's supposed to, and nothing else. Of course ffmpeg does all the heavy lifting, but WMP6 just has a very clean and snappy interface.
I tried VLC - its interface is somewhat haphazard, but more annoyingly, extremely slow and unresponsive (plus its scaling looks kinda weird, but that could be just me).
And WinAmp is second to none (or maybe a very few) for music, but it's video support is laughable (kinda like when IrfanView tries to display text files - just leave it alone, it's not for you!).
So, while WMP7+ is horrid, horrid software, I wouldn't say that the clear winner on Windows is a Free alternative. (Linux is a different story: I think it's the height of irony that the best all-around desktop multimedia experience right now is Xine on Linux
Sure, it's neat - giant touchscreen with multiple points of contact and gestures that zoom and pan.
And this is what's going to "change the way we interact with computers"? Odd as it may sound, most application interfaces don't revolve around zooming and panning; there are considerably harder problems left to solve.
Funny he should mention RSI too, because that keyboard that will free you from the bonds of conformity, and that's displayed on a hard surface, will kill your wrists in a matter of months.
The thing is great for the Earth-type applications, but that's about it. It's cool technology - why must every innovation promise to change all future computer interactions?
(btw, if that picture viewer's "Pile of Crap" metaphor is where UI design is headed, I'm never upgrading again. I have my desk to act as a pile of crap, it won't make me feel more comfortable with my computer if it emulates that)
Under certain circumstances (hadn't bothered to replicate it exactly yet), after you Ctrl-T to open a new tab, the URL bar is either not focused, or is focused and has a cursor, but typing produces no effect. So an annoying extra click is needed.
.0 release. So the solution is to wait for 3.0? A much more drastic change? How about 2.0.1 or 2.1.1 - I know, crazy talk!
So far, this has not been a show-stopper. Oh, and the option to turn off the ridiculous new tab behaviour should be in the Options, not just about:config.
About the list - most of the legitimate complaints are about the kinds of things you would expect from a
(can't really comment on the various memory issues, I usually have 4 or 5 windows with 20+ tabs, which variously uses 300-400MB; doesn't seem like all that much, all things considered)
Considering he "materially and willfully" aided the enemies of the United States. Just saying.
Oh, and this is rich: "the best outcome of Mr. Soghoian's ill-considered demonstration would be for the Department of Homeland Security to close these loopholes immediately."
If that's the outcome, then it was an excellently considered demonstration.
Well, no, we are not there yet.
We are still working our way through this one. About 1/4 done, I'd say. Probably because freedom of the press is so salient an issue in the public eye, so they started with the other stuff.
While I agree that Slashdot is ugnly as sin, that has to be the worst "evaulation" I've read in a long time.
The page should have less articles so it's "proportionate"? What do they think it is, a book?
I think this is less about evidence installing and more about protecting your giraffe videos.
even if Dubya repeats the "We are at war" phrase over and over and over. We're not at war unless Congress signs papers to that effect. Period.
You sure about that? I used to say that in the US, if you are charged with a crime, you are guaranteed a fair trial. Period.
Look how well that turned out.
... and disable all virus protection
That one's not a good metaphor.
Remember, there is no such thing as the Linux operating system.
You know, normal people would read that as "Oracle will be providing full enterprise support for [a Linux distribution]."
If an article blurb says that Product X has been "released for Windows", would you require it to specify "XP, 2000, but not Me, 98, or 3.1"?
The word "Linux" is used to refer to an entire distribution. The Linux kernel is usually referred to as just that, almost never simply as "Linux". And finally, there is no way that phrasing could indicate, to anyone, that Oracle plans to support anything but a specific distribution of Linux.
To put it differently - get a life.
(now, I am the first one to jump all over people for using obscure phraseology incorrectly, but this goes beyond pedantry - you are making up ambiguity where there is none)
Some fucking space battles!
So far this season it's all "Let's go start some shit up and blow up our own hovels - that'll show the Cylons!", or whatnot.
(admittedly, I may not have paid particular attention to the specifics of TFA)
Ouch. Since when are worn-out jokes not funny on Slashdot? After all if BSD is dying on your beowulf cluster in Soviet Russia, does Linux not run you?
Well, not funny as it may be, I don't think it reflects on my understanding of Debian's naming decisions. Actually, I'm not sure what nuance there is miss with this one, though - they call it GNU/Linux because it contains a lot of code from GNU and Linux - doesn't seem all that "controversial".
As I understand it Mozilla used to let them call these versions "Debian Firefox" but now they don't anymore.
Have they tried "GNU/Firefox"?
I hear this repeated a lot. It's not true. If you allow your mark to become generic you can lose your right to it.
So, genericide is one way to lose your trademark, but that doesn't mean that other's don't exist. Most layman explanations of trademark law I've seen say that failing to police the use of your mark can lead to "unintentional abandonment", or somesuch.
Anyone have a definitive source for this?
why is Debian "wasting" time patching Firefox when they could be I don't know, releasing a "stable" that isn't 10 years old?
Because they believe their licensing terms are incompatible with Firefox's licensing terms?
And if you think that the reason the "stable" packages are so old is because of lack of effort on the part of the devs, you are seriously missing the point.
(people who run Debian, but clearly want to have Gentoo or Ubuntu, baffle me)
What did the judge do?
I just glanced over the thing, and it says that at a certain point Spamhaus' laywers stopped showing up to court, so the judgement defaulted to the plaintiff. I'm pretty sure the judge didn't have a lot of leeway to do any judging at that point.
(oh yeah, great job using "mail", "judge", and "bomb" together - enjoy being an enemy combatant... ah crap! I'll see you at Gitmo...)
Probably has to do with memory/cache access and total available bandwidth between the cores. Memory architecture seems to be the one area where the Core still can't touch the Opteron.
Of course, I'm just guessing.
Until and unless he's formally charged (indicted), the right to an attorney doesn't actually attach
Huh, never realized that you are not charged until you've been arraigned. I'm sure I am not the only one who always assumed that you are charged when you get Mirandized (after all, they are supposed to tell you what you are "charged" with at that point.
Thanks for the explanation - everything I know about law comes from watching Special Victims Unit (which essentially boils down to: "Mariska Hargitay is exteremely hot.").
But it's still true that he can only be held for a very limited amount of time, without being charged, right?
From TFA:
Du Bois complained today that police had not allowed him to meet with his client after the arrest. He said investigators were keeping Reiser in isolation.
Did the whole "everybody is an Enemy Combatant if we say so" thing start already and no one told me? What exactly is this "isolation" where you can't contact your laywer?
No calls for donations for his legal defense?
So, all I know about him is that he wrote a kick-ass filesystem. That doesn't necessarily mean that he is innocent though.
There seems to be very little information, one way or the other.
Copyright.
Copyright, copyright, copy-bleeding-right!
It's a right, not a verb.
and you're wrong in that the abstract turing machine can, indeed, represent whatever is going on at those lower biological levels, since, they're stateful.
Depends on what you mean by "represent". A TM can certainly simulate (hypothetically) any biological process (unless you believe in God), but "represent" is just too vague in this conext. The OP was trying to liken different parts of a particular, abstract, TM construct (head + tape + fsm) with different components of the Central Dogma - and that's silly, was all I was saying.
I bet almost all of you windows folks are running XP at this point.
:)
And what do you know, five years later and (almost) at the next version release, and here I am still on 2k. More importantly, every single desktop where I work is still on 2k.
Could be different with Vista though. The problem with XP was that it is not different from Windows 2000 in any substantial way, just uglier and a little less stable. Vista looks like it actually might offer something new.
Or maybe it's just because even 5 years is an unreasonably short upgrade cycle for many environments. I personally will be swtiching to Vista when EVE needs it to look pretty
It was more of a facetious remark about the shitty quality of today's popular music.
You may now unbunch your panties.