I know it's offtopic, but I don't think it's their "CSS implementation", but rather their Web 2.0 implementation with all the JavaScript that comes with it.
On my Asus EEE PC 701, I pretty much always get the warning that a script is running and offers to kill it. I always do. On my wifes 5 year old PC, which is plently fast for pretty much anything we do, slashdot freezes the browser about 2 seconds for a reload. Annoying, but not that problematic. The behaviour with the EEE PC pisses me off though
I didn't get burned myself. However, my brother is an avid GTA fan and I administer his system. So I got to install it, and I always test before giving my "ok". My brother now either can buy a new gaming machine or decide go the PS3/XBox360 which would be way cheaper in the long run for him.
You also got burned, eh? FSM, is that a piece of trash. With that release they destroyed their reputation as a good game developer company. At least for me.
No, he means exactly that. Wire transfers cost nothing in Europe (at least not in my country) and international wire transfers only require you to use an IBAN account number (which are already standard in some countries) and the SWIFT/BIC code. All this information is typically provided on every bill you get.
National transfers, you only need the account number that you with to wire money to. In most countries, the "bank code" is part of the account number. It most certainly is encoded in the IBAN. (Can you tell, that I implemented the IBAN code for a major bank?) IBAN is a wonderful system: a bit reading material
Funny, I get 3.5 GBs of RAM on both of my 32-bit machines.
So do I, but the memory "lost" is used for memory mapping of your devices. So, the more memory they need, the more you will lose... Imagine having someone with two 512Meg video cards.... There you go! You just lost a full Gig.
I think the architecture itself reserves 512Meg by default, regardless what the actual needs are.
Yes, that is true.... It is semantics, but it means that the word "supernatural" is meaningless. Anything observable and measurable is by definition natural and thus can be scientifically tested. That's the whole point: using the word "supernatural" is a cop-out. Call it "unexplained phenomena" or something like that: At least that is honest. You can't explain them, but that doesn't mean there is something inherently mysterious to it.
This is all under the assumption that there is "something" in us that is energy. Everything we know says it isn't so. You start from an assertion which isn't true, so anything you deduce from it is by definition not true.
If you can prove that there is something else beyond the physical material we are, you're going to get a Nobel prize....
My approach was very business-like, I even donated $150 to the project when I first started lurking and made it clear who I was, whom I represented, and what my project goals were.
Businesslike? I am a private individual and I donate 180€ per year to the OpenBSD project. I wouldn't even think of demanding anything to them. If you think that a one-shot donation of 150$ is generous, you live in a very strange world.
The configuration files are not a problem and never have been. They're actually much better than the registry which is a monolithic badly documented binary hierarchical database. The writer mentions as a "bad configuration file" the poster child of how not to do it, namely sendmail. I'm sorry, but sendmail is not meant to be configured by an end-user, this is administrator stuff and should be done with an editor at the command line without a graphical interface. A server doesn't need a graphical interface, a serial console should do. That's all what I'm going to say about that.
The others were just whining in the order of "but it's not like Windows". Scrap that, all points were whining that "it's not like Windows". The writer of the article should get a link to this article.
See, when I work in film, I need to have a Mac around to handle the flatbed scanner. Because, unfortunately, Linux support for flatbed scanners really sucks rocks.
It's funny, I just posted something similar but not in those words. Actually, I used is as an example for commercial software on Linux. I have a SCSI Dia scanner and XSane wouldn't work with it. To XSanes defence: my old SCSI Flatbed scanner did work, though. VueScan was the solution for me. Perhaps that could be the solution for you too? (Just a happy customer...:-D)
Everything Else" argument. Having a stable binary kernel driver interface is the STANDARD, not the EXCEPTION.
And yet, it was a completely voluntary design decision. The idea is to be able to quickly improve the kernel, to be able to swap a scheduler/virtual-memory-manager/usb-stack/... quickly and easily. Yes, it makes binary-only drivers nearly impossible, but that's the point. It's better to have the source and be able to audit it. Also, keep in mind that Linux doesn't only run on x86. Binary-only drivers are pretty much always tied to x86 and thus you're screwed when you want to install Linux on your ARM Toaster. That said, for toasters the preferred operating system is NetBSD.
As compared to the utter contempt for the user by the coders of commercial software?
"it's not a bug, it's a feature!"
That problem? Yes, it is known... It will be fixed in the next version. Be prepared to pay!
No, that file format is obsolete, you need to use the new one now. A business partner send you the new one and can't open it? How is that my problem?
Just reboot it!
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Need I go on? If I really wanted to be flamebaitish, I'd say "Vista"... Oops, too late.
The article is wrong, and flamebait. All problems he argues about are by design and the correct decisions. That said, I'm not an "everything must be open source" fanatic, even though I think ultimately that would be best. Hey, I even bought a commercial application for Linux (because the free one really sucked with the hardware I had), namely: VueScan. As said, this was mainly because of specialized hardware which XSane didn't support.
Hmmmm.... Guess you don't like Sony or HP either. They are sold in the same aisle. Just next to Apple iPods (should look if they have Apple computers too)
A lot of people buy computers in supermarkets. This is of course not a supermarket just around your corner. This is pretty much the largest "supermarket" in the country. I should have said "Shopping Mall" to be "American-speak-compatible", I guess.
Yes, but in 2003, I bought a 33" SD CRT 16:9 100Hz TV for less than 1000€ (That were the prices back then, LCD and Plasma were in the 4000€++ range). That TV is now five years old, and there is no reason at all to spend "a few hundred buck" to replace a perfectly working TV. Especially I can just spend less than 100 "bucks" for a digital converter box.
When my TV breaks (My estimate is somewhere within the next five years...), then I'll buy a new TV. Probably HDTV, but most likely one that is on sale.
The real question is thus: "Why spend money on something you don't need". Most normal people ask that question first before shelling out "a couple hundred bucks". At least I hope so....
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You're doing it wrong! (Sorry, couldn't resist) :-P
I know it's offtopic, but I don't think it's their "CSS implementation", but rather their Web 2.0 implementation with all the JavaScript that comes with it.
On my Asus EEE PC 701, I pretty much always get the warning that a script is running and offers to kill it. I always do. On my wifes 5 year old PC, which is plently fast for pretty much anything we do, slashdot freezes the browser about 2 seconds for a reload. Annoying, but not that problematic. The behaviour with the EEE PC pisses me off though
I didn't get burned myself. However, my brother is an avid GTA fan and I administer his system. So I got to install it, and I always test before giving my "ok". My brother now either can buy a new gaming machine or decide go the PS3/XBox360 which would be way cheaper in the long run for him.
No, it "affects prices" or "has an effect on prices". It's not that hard people!
You also got burned, eh? FSM, is that a piece of trash. With that release they destroyed their reputation as a good game developer company. At least for me.
I don't know of 0-day transactions in Europe. But the system as is works, and that's the whole point.
Ah! The example that confirms the rule ;-) Intra-EU, it's free... The other poster is right about the reason why it takes three days, by the way....
No, he means exactly that. Wire transfers cost nothing in Europe (at least not in my country) and international wire transfers only require you to use an IBAN account number (which are already standard in some countries) and the SWIFT/BIC code. All this information is typically provided on every bill you get.
National transfers, you only need the account number that you with to wire money to. In most countries, the "bank code" is part of the account number. It most certainly is encoded in the IBAN. (Can you tell, that I implemented the IBAN code for a major bank?) IBAN is a wonderful system: a bit reading material
Funny, I get 3.5 GBs of RAM on both of my 32-bit machines.
So do I, but the memory "lost" is used for memory mapping of your devices. So, the more memory they need, the more you will lose... Imagine having someone with two 512Meg video cards.... There you go! You just lost a full Gig.
I think the architecture itself reserves 512Meg by default, regardless what the actual needs are.
Thanks for the reply. Exactly as I intended to reply, but you did it more eloquently :-D
I didn't. You really sounded that way....
Yes, that is true.... It is semantics, but it means that the word "supernatural" is meaningless. Anything observable and measurable is by definition natural and thus can be scientifically tested. That's the whole point: using the word "supernatural" is a cop-out. Call it "unexplained phenomena" or something like that: At least that is honest. You can't explain them, but that doesn't mean there is something inherently mysterious to it.
This is all under the assumption that there is "something" in us that is energy. Everything we know says it isn't so. You start from an assertion which isn't true, so anything you deduce from it is by definition not true.
If you can prove that there is something else beyond the physical material we are, you're going to get a Nobel prize....
The supernatural does not exist.
Read it....
Do you have any proof for such assertions? The most simple explanation is: we each have one life, it stops when your brain dies. End of story.
Businesslike? I am a private individual and I donate 180€ per year to the OpenBSD project. I wouldn't even think of demanding anything to them. If you think that a one-shot donation of 150$ is generous, you live in a very strange world.
Must be good stuff you're smoking ;-)
The configuration files are not a problem and never have been. They're actually much better than the registry which is a monolithic badly documented binary hierarchical database. The writer mentions as a "bad configuration file" the poster child of how not to do it, namely sendmail. I'm sorry, but sendmail is not meant to be configured by an end-user, this is administrator stuff and should be done with an editor at the command line without a graphical interface. A server doesn't need a graphical interface, a serial console should do. That's all what I'm going to say about that.
The others were just whining in the order of "but it's not like Windows". Scrap that, all points were whining that "it's not like Windows". The writer of the article should get a link to this article.
It's funny, I just posted something similar but not in those words. Actually, I used is as an example for commercial software on Linux. I have a SCSI Dia scanner and XSane wouldn't work with it. To XSanes defence: my old SCSI Flatbed scanner did work, though. VueScan was the solution for me. Perhaps that could be the solution for you too? (Just a happy customer... :-D)
And yet, it was a completely voluntary design decision. The idea is to be able to quickly improve the kernel, to be able to swap a scheduler/virtual-memory-manager/usb-stack/... quickly and easily. Yes, it makes binary-only drivers nearly impossible, but that's the point. It's better to have the source and be able to audit it. Also, keep in mind that Linux doesn't only run on x86. Binary-only drivers are pretty much always tied to x86 and thus you're screwed when you want to install Linux on your ARM Toaster. That said, for toasters the preferred operating system is NetBSD.
The article is wrong, and flamebait. All problems he argues about are by design and the correct decisions. That said, I'm not an "everything must be open source" fanatic, even though I think ultimately that would be best. Hey, I even bought a commercial application for Linux (because the free one really sucked with the hardware I had), namely: VueScan. As said, this was mainly because of specialized hardware which XSane didn't support.
I fail to see what cutting stuff up and pasting it together in a different configuration has to do with degrees and education.
Hmmmm.... Guess you don't like Sony or HP either. They are sold in the same aisle. Just next to Apple iPods (should look if they have Apple computers too)
A lot of people buy computers in supermarkets. This is of course not a supermarket just around your corner. This is pretty much the largest "supermarket" in the country. I should have said "Shopping Mall" to be "American-speak-compatible", I guess.
Yes, but in 2003, I bought a 33" SD CRT 16:9 100Hz TV for less than 1000€ (That were the prices back then, LCD and Plasma were in the 4000€++ range). That TV is now five years old, and there is no reason at all to spend "a few hundred buck" to replace a perfectly working TV. Especially I can just spend less than 100 "bucks" for a digital converter box.
When my TV breaks (My estimate is somewhere within the next five years...), then I'll buy a new TV. Probably HDTV, but most likely one that is on sale.
The real question is thus: "Why spend money on something you don't need". Most normal people ask that question first before shelling out "a couple hundred bucks". At least I hope so....
Yes, I did hear that a while back, but thanks for reminding me.