It doesn't compare to a real printed page or e-ink. And I read outside all the time, like nearly every single day. "Non-optimal" doesn't cut it, sorry.
Try reading it outside in bright, direct sunlight (ie the beach).
Readers like these Sony ones and the Kindle are all about the e-ink displays, full stop. They are awesome, and the charge life is measured in weeks. LCDs are shit for reading books, honestly.
So I take it you've analysed Arizona's budget and know for a fact that excessive government spending is a problem? I'd be interested in hearing your analysis of precisely what should be cut.
Nice, things have certainly improved. What if you tried to drop it into a KDE app (given that you're running a Gnome desktop and all)? Or Abiword? If any of them fail where they should work, then it's still broken.
Can I also drop that jpg onto the desktop, and have it sit there as a file? Or onto a folder in a file manager? Or into a word processing document (say, Abiword) and have it automatically embed? It's not up to the individual app to handle these things. That's why it's a "desktop" and not a "window manager" - to handle drag and drop correctly, among many other things.
In all fairness, you can do all of this if you select your apps carefully - KDE has it sorted, I believe. But it should be ubiquitous.
This was on the bug-tracker, not the forums. I've never posted in the Gentoo forums.
To be honest, I was being a bit unfair - I have the feeling a lot of the Gentoo devs are very young and quite atypical in the Linux world. A lot of the times they clearly didn't understand certain concepts.
Former Gentoo and Debian user here...same experience exactly, except I actually did contribute code from time to time (well, mostly bugfixes). The Gentoo maintainers were particularly rude, and you had to pretty much be rude right back to convince them that what you had done was correct. Totally draining experience.
In an offtopic note, I remember a sort of userland breaking point: I tried to drag and drop a jpg in a browser window (Firefox) to some photo editor. It didn't work. Macs and Windows have been able to do this since at least the mid-90s. I have no idea if you can drag an image from Firefox to the Gimp nowadays, and I don't care.
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Dan Brown claims 99% correctness with the Da Vinci Code. I'm sure no one would care if he hadn't made that and similar claims.
You don't have to register for a copyright. You don't have to do anything, other than be able to prove that what you've created was your idea. Maybe you're thinking of patents.
As another poster mentioned, the Canadian equivalent of the 4th Amendment is Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
More to the point, Canada has a very powerful Privacy Act ("An Act to extend the present laws of Canada that protect the privacy of individuals and that provide individuals with a right of access to personal information about themselves") that limits the government's ability to collect and retain private information, and a Privacy Commissioner to enforce it. I don't think there's anything comparable in the US, as Canada's privacy laws are probably the toughest in the western world.
There are lots and lots of great, cheap PS3 games. I think I saw Dead Space the other day for $20. I picked up Rainbow Six Vegas for $20 also. Even Metal Gear Solid 4 is only $30-$40 now.
Yeah, I'm with you. I spend maybe four hours a week on games, so they take me a loooong time to finish. I only just got around to playing Call of Duty 4! So I have a huge backlog of great games to play yet.
I actually find games to be good value compared to going to a first-run movie ($12 for two hours) or even buying a novel (around $15), particularly since the resale values are so high. I sold Killzone 2 recently for $40 after buying it for $60. That's pretty good value, I'd say.
Any language that depends on whitespace to delimit blocks of code (e.g., the code belonging to an IF or FOR loop) is poorly defined. Whitespace exists for visual depictions of code, not internal.
Says you. Google, who employ Python's creator, feel differently. Guess who matters more?
That's true, I too found it to be unpolished and generally underwhelming. But who knows if the Chrome OS interface, if there is much of one outside of the browser, will be similar.
Agreed, all this speculation about window managers, ease of use, etc. is futile. Do you find Gmail and Co. easy to use? Then guess what, Chrome OS will be easy to use.
This is what Sun was trying to do ages ago with their "network computers" or whatever they called them.
Flame me if you want, but it seems like an Atari computer made in 1983 works better with peripherals than an Ubuntu does made in 2009.
Let's be honest - that's not saying much.
Seriously though, those early 8-bit computers were simply the greatest things ever for learning. They were small enough that you could comfortably learn them in a pretty complete fashion. My C64 Programmer's Reference Guide taught you everything you needed to know about that machine, supplemented by The Transactor, possibly the greatest technical computer magazine ever.
So your single-core cpu is only ever capable of running a single process? The advantages of a multi-process browser go way beyond running the processes on separate cores.
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It doesn't compare to a real printed page or e-ink. And I read outside all the time, like nearly every single day. "Non-optimal" doesn't cut it, sorry.
Try reading it outside in bright, direct sunlight (ie the beach).
Readers like these Sony ones and the Kindle are all about the e-ink displays, full stop. They are awesome, and the charge life is measured in weeks. LCDs are shit for reading books, honestly.
The best thing about that assholish tutorial is the terrible spelling and grammar. What a joke.
No, you've just been talking in arm-waving generalities, not specifics. Are you in management?
So I take it you've analysed Arizona's budget and know for a fact that excessive government spending is a problem? I'd be interested in hearing your analysis of precisely what should be cut.
Nice, things have certainly improved. What if you tried to drop it into a KDE app (given that you're running a Gnome desktop and all)? Or Abiword? If any of them fail where they should work, then it's still broken.
Can I also drop that jpg onto the desktop, and have it sit there as a file? Or onto a folder in a file manager? Or into a word processing document (say, Abiword) and have it automatically embed? It's not up to the individual app to handle these things. That's why it's a "desktop" and not a "window manager" - to handle drag and drop correctly, among many other things.
In all fairness, you can do all of this if you select your apps carefully - KDE has it sorted, I believe. But it should be ubiquitous.
This was on the bug-tracker, not the forums. I've never posted in the Gentoo forums.
To be honest, I was being a bit unfair - I have the feeling a lot of the Gentoo devs are very young and quite atypical in the Linux world. A lot of the times they clearly didn't understand certain concepts.
Former Gentoo and Debian user here...same experience exactly, except I actually did contribute code from time to time (well, mostly bugfixes). The Gentoo maintainers were particularly rude, and you had to pretty much be rude right back to convince them that what you had done was correct. Totally draining experience.
In an offtopic note, I remember a sort of userland breaking point: I tried to drag and drop a jpg in a browser window (Firefox) to some photo editor. It didn't work. Macs and Windows have been able to do this since at least the mid-90s. I have no idea if you can drag an image from Firefox to the Gimp nowadays, and I don't care.
Dan Brown claims 99% correctness with the Da Vinci Code. I'm sure no one would care if he hadn't made that and similar claims.
PowerDns for the win. Plus it reads legacy BIND zone files.
You don't have to register for a copyright. You don't have to do anything, other than be able to prove that what you've created was your idea. Maybe you're thinking of patents.
http://gears.google.com/support/
Nearly as horrible as people who don't hyphenate words correctly - there is no such word as "nonnative". Rather, it's "non-native".
As another poster mentioned, the Canadian equivalent of the 4th Amendment is Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
More to the point, Canada has a very powerful Privacy Act ("An Act to extend the present laws of Canada that protect the privacy of individuals and that provide individuals with a right of access to personal information about themselves") that limits the government's ability to collect and retain private information, and a Privacy Commissioner to enforce it. I don't think there's anything comparable in the US, as Canada's privacy laws are probably the toughest in the western world.
There are lots and lots of great, cheap PS3 games. I think I saw Dead Space the other day for $20. I picked up Rainbow Six Vegas for $20 also. Even Metal Gear Solid 4 is only $30-$40 now.
Yeah, I'm with you. I spend maybe four hours a week on games, so they take me a loooong time to finish. I only just got around to playing Call of Duty 4! So I have a huge backlog of great games to play yet.
I actually find games to be good value compared to going to a first-run movie ($12 for two hours) or even buying a novel (around $15), particularly since the resale values are so high. I sold Killzone 2 recently for $40 after buying it for $60. That's pretty good value, I'd say.
Any language that depends on whitespace to delimit blocks of code (e.g., the code belonging to an IF or FOR loop) is poorly defined. Whitespace exists for visual depictions of code, not internal.
Says you. Google, who employ Python's creator, feel differently. Guess who matters more?
Let's see, who should I believe regarding climate change/warming:
1. A massive consensus of the world's climate scientists, or
2. "Hubbell", a Slashdot user with a uid in the 800,000s, no less.
Boy, tough one.
That's true, I too found it to be unpolished and generally underwhelming. But who knows if the Chrome OS interface, if there is much of one outside of the browser, will be similar.
Agreed, all this speculation about window managers, ease of use, etc. is futile. Do you find Gmail and Co. easy to use? Then guess what, Chrome OS will be easy to use.
This is what Sun was trying to do ages ago with their "network computers" or whatever they called them.
The big questions are:
Will your solution need to support snmp v3?
Do the devices you talk to have published oids?
Do you need source code to extend it?
If yes to these, OpenNms is a great bet.
I'll second this.
Flame me if you want, but it seems like an Atari computer made in 1983 works better with peripherals than an Ubuntu does made in 2009.
Let's be honest - that's not saying much.
Seriously though, those early 8-bit computers were simply the greatest things ever for learning. They were small enough that you could comfortably learn them in a pretty complete fashion. My C64 Programmer's Reference Guide taught you everything you needed to know about that machine, supplemented by The Transactor, possibly the greatest technical computer magazine ever.
So your single-core cpu is only ever capable of running a single process? The advantages of a multi-process browser go way beyond running the processes on separate cores.