At least they seem to have finally shut up about the millions of lines of mystery code that allegedly has nothing to do with IBM. I'm sure that mantra of FUD will resurface once the Red Hat case gets going again.
I have not tried to impart any information that would require my location to fully comprehend it.
What difference would it make if it was anywhere else in the world? You assume that I overlooked mentioning my location, but I just didn't feel that it was important.
Child-proof lighters are a good thing. Who cares where I live?
Socialism, as practiced heavily in Canada since the Trudeau era (c. 1970) has been stifling, by comparison.
One thing that really bothers me about free health care is this attitude that any private hospitals will mean the immediate demise of our entire health care system. I think that private hospitals could cater to people who can afford to "jump the queue", and heavily tax them to help fund the public system. There would be issues like whether or not they should be allowed to do transplants and things like that. I think it's worth discussing anyway. The lefties go insane when you even mention the idea though. They've already threatened Alberta with cutting them off of transfer payments if they allow private hospitals. I'm not exactly sure how that works since Alberta is one of the only two provinces who contribute to those transfer payments rather than receive them.
America learns to play nicely with others, a key ingredient in any kind of cooperation and/or alliances. And given the population difference between Asia and the U.S., the U.S. will have to make alliances.
Exactly, there's no justification for saying that the Canadian government is out of line here when the US goes and pulls this BS.
Or how about making sure that lighters wouldn't work if the person flicking the switch was underage - that would also prevent children from accidentally burning down homes
They passed a law here a few years back that lighters had to be child proof, and it has worked out quite well actually. They are very difficult for children to operate, and its quite easy for someone without children to pry the thing off so it functions normally.
I gave it a try with Wine, and it almost works. The pictures just never get added once you click the Finish button, and the import a whole folder thing doesn't work at all. Oh well.
I never said IE was better than Netscape, I just said that IE had bad legacy code issues
I never said you did..
Because if IE hadn't killed of Netscape, there'd have been no reason to have a Firefox in the first place
If IE hadn't been bundled with Windows it never would have achieved the success it did. The only thing it has going for it is that it can't be uninstalled.
most of IE's current problems stem from legacy code from when IE and all browsers were new and inexperienced
But Mozilla/Firefox evolved from Netscape which has been around since the very early days as well. If they've got code-rot problems then perhaps they should just move toward a Gecko wrapper, and put their team to work making new themes or something. *grin*
I tried designing an XML-based programming language long ago and failed miserably. It just doesn't work out well.
XUL, or something like (lib)Glade is about as far as XML should be taken as a programming language IMHO. It's great for laying out widgets, and defining callbacks, that kind of thing. Beyond that, it just gets in the way.
5 bucks a month is pretty cheap for outstanding features.
Or just use standard wine. I have no problem with cracking a game that I paid for, rather than pay $5 to enable their copy protection with proprietary BS. Open source cracks, thats what we need.
So in what way does completely removing the menubar, toolbar, and sidebar help anyone? The content pane is the same either way, its just more difficult to navigate.
It's also sad that there will be a 6.8.2 release, and we'll have to wait for 6.9.0 for the merged Gatos driver. I hacked the Gentoo ebuild to fetch Xorg from CVS, and my tuner worked out of the box. Hoorah!
The question is whether the spatial metaphor is always useful.
I'm convinced the spacial thing only came about because they didn't feel like fixing the tree view sidebar.. There's just no other reasonable explanation.
A recent example is K3b which is a nice CD-Burning App but it would be the only thing on my system needing the KDE-Libraries and doesn't really gain much from using them.
It looks nice, but is among the most frustrating software I've ever tried to use. Gourmet garbage is what it is.
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At least they seem to have finally shut up about the millions of lines of mystery code that allegedly has nothing to do with IBM. I'm sure that mantra of FUD will resurface once the Red Hat case gets going again.
I have not tried to impart any information that would require my location to fully comprehend it.
What difference would it make if it was anywhere else in the world? You assume that I overlooked mentioning my location, but I just didn't feel that it was important.
Child-proof lighters are a good thing. Who cares where I live?
I think the post above yours makes the point beautifully
Neither one of you mentioned where you live, so what is your point?
Socialism, as practiced heavily in Canada since the Trudeau era (c. 1970) has been stifling, by comparison.
One thing that really bothers me about free health care is this attitude that any private hospitals will mean the immediate demise of our entire health care system. I think that private hospitals could cater to people who can afford to "jump the queue", and heavily tax them to help fund the public system. There would be issues like whether or not they should be allowed to do transplants and things like that. I think it's worth discussing anyway. The lefties go insane when you even mention the idea though. They've already threatened Alberta with cutting them off of transfer payments if they allow private hospitals. I'm not exactly sure how that works since Alberta is one of the only two provinces who contribute to those transfer payments rather than receive them.
America learns to play nicely with others, a key ingredient in any kind of cooperation and/or alliances. And given the population difference between Asia and the U.S., the U.S. will have to make alliances.
Exactly, there's no justification for saying that the Canadian government is out of line here when the US goes and pulls this BS.
Mate, you're in an international forum. Where is 'here' ?
Does it matter? I'm not sure of the jurisdiction, Canada I think, but maybe just certain provinces.
Or how about making sure that lighters wouldn't work if the person flicking the switch was underage - that would also prevent children from accidentally burning down homes
They passed a law here a few years back that lighters had to be child proof, and it has worked out quite well actually. They are very difficult for children to operate, and its quite easy for someone without children to pry the thing off so it functions normally.
Good point, bad example.
Regardless of what has been rewritten or why, the fact is that it has been done with Moz/Gecko, and remains to be done with IE apparently.
I gave it a try with Wine, and it almost works. The pictures just never get added once you click the Finish button, and the import a whole folder thing doesn't work at all. Oh well.
I never said IE was better than Netscape, I just said that IE had bad legacy code issues
I never said you did..
Because if IE hadn't killed of Netscape, there'd have been no reason to have a Firefox in the first place
If IE hadn't been bundled with Windows it never would have achieved the success it did. The only thing it has going for it is that it can't be uninstalled.
most of IE's current problems stem from legacy code from when IE and all browsers were new and inexperienced
But Mozilla/Firefox evolved from Netscape which has been around since the very early days as well. If they've got code-rot problems then perhaps they should just move toward a Gecko wrapper, and put their team to work making new themes or something. *grin*
I tried designing an XML-based programming language long ago and failed miserably. It just doesn't work out well.
XUL, or something like (lib)Glade is about as far as XML should be taken as a programming language IMHO. It's great for laying out widgets, and defining callbacks, that kind of thing. Beyond that, it just gets in the way.
If the tools are inconvenient to use or not suitable to the problem at hand, they don't get used.
Tell that to the Internet Explorer development team.
If you're unemployed you're going to have trouble getting bus fare let alone buying a new house in a foreign country.
You're right, stay there, remain broke and just bitch about it on Slashdot. That's a much better solution.
5 bucks a month is pretty cheap for outstanding features.
Or just use standard wine. I have no problem with cracking a game that I paid for, rather than pay $5 to enable their copy protection with proprietary BS. Open source cracks, thats what we need.
most people will only care about the games they personally run.
Exactly.. And our solitaire is waaaaaaaay better.
What's your suggestion for getting around "Sorry, we picked another candidate" in a period of jobless growth in the United States?
Move.
tree views are a usability nightmare
So in what way does completely removing the menubar, toolbar, and sidebar help anyone? The content pane is the same either way, its just more difficult to navigate.
It's also sad that there will be a 6.8.2 release, and we'll have to wait for 6.9.0 for the merged Gatos driver. I hacked the Gentoo ebuild to fetch Xorg from CVS, and my tuner worked out of the box. Hoorah!
The question is whether the spatial metaphor is always useful.
I'm convinced the spacial thing only came about because they didn't feel like fixing the tree view sidebar.. There's just no other reasonable explanation.
This is why vmware exists, and actually makes money
So use it. Go ahead and try to convince Microsoft to support Xen. Please let us know how that goes.
I notice that doesn't include SCO:
The following guest operating systems may not work with VMware Workstation. There are currently no plans to support these guests:
- BeOS
- IBM OS/2 and OS/2 Warp
- Minix
- QNX
- SCO Unix
- UnixWare
Oh right, you said mainstream. Nobody actually uses SCO products anymore do they?does this mean /.'s are actually RTFA?
Nope, that's just one of the limitations of a tic-tac web server.
A recent example is K3b which is a nice CD-Burning App but it would be the only thing on my system needing the KDE-Libraries and doesn't really gain much from using them.
It looks nice, but is among the most frustrating software I've ever tried to use. Gourmet garbage is what it is.
Haha, so that's where Blepp's Briefcase went.