The difference is that the Macbook requires you to logout for the switch. Sony doesn't. That's a pretty big inconvenience because you can't just turn it on during a session if you just wanna check something that needs some heavy graphics.
It doesn't need a reboot so it's (most likely) a software issue (stop the presses, Vista better than OSX at something) and we can hope that Apple will ignore the problem for a few weeks then deny that there is one and finally patch it just after Christmas.
If you prefer to believe that someone at MS actually got half a brain you could interpret it like this: Vista 64 is the new NT. It's not meant for Joe Average, instead it is meant for a relatively small subset of power users in a relatively controlled environment (i.e. no crazy hardware and crappy legacy apps) so MS can get some real world usage data while reading the new 2000 and XP which will transition the rest of us to 64 bits.
Of course, looking at the rest of Vista it's more likely that they were on crack.
I prefer to think of it as "they managed to get us through the 16 to 32 bit transition without everything imploding." Look at Itanium to see how it could have gone horribly wrong.
Lots of people depended on lots of 16bit software that used too many hacks for it to work at acceptable speeds on an emulation layer (on 1995 hardware, of course).
Win95/98 was necessary. WinME was a spawn of satan though.
I know that you were just trying to be funny. But honestly, this is the 1-in-1000/. story that actually explains what it's talking about in the second sentence:
The game allows the creation of puzzles from a collection of simple objects and tools.
So, kudos to Soulskill who did not remove the useful part of the submission. You must be new here.
That's because Skylab was effectively an upper stage to the Saturn V in shape. If you look at pictures, especially from the inside, you'll see how spacious that thing was. Of course that's a huge waste of extremely expensive real estate therefore the ISS is much more cramped with a lot more surface area in the living quarters (i.e. places to stow scientific experiments and supplies).
Compare this picture of Skylab to this one of the ISS. Especially the size of the Apollo service module which is smaller than Columbus.
And if you'd have followed the story for a bit longer, you'd realize that this was a damn near inevitable outcome of Russia's approach to "protecting" South Ossetia from Georgia.
Yes, as if South Ossetia needed protection from freedom loving Georgians who after all were liberating the shit out of them until the big bad Russians came.
Georgia is a friendly, peace loving country and the reason everyone and his dog wants independence from them is just the big bad Russians supporting terrorists.
Of course Russia is hypocritical after the whole Chechnya thing but they can just recycle all the platitudes the US came up with for Kosovo and Iraq.
KDE (3.x at least) had a config file option to reverse the button order (unfortunately I can't remember where, you'll have to google for it), afaik Gnome doesn't.
At least atm the windows version is still kinda linuxy. If you look at the first screenshot in the article, it's the list of dependencies the installer's going to download. If you really want to, you can download all of them manually, put them in the packages directory and it will use them during installation. But that's a pretty crazy way of doing this.
It should be quite easy to create an image containing KOffice and all dependencies (perhaps with a seperate image for kdelibs+Qt) that you can download and that then acts as a repository for the packages themselves.
But imho KDE4Win won't be ready for primetime before KDE4.2 and an online installer with separate packages is superior for frequent developer/beta-tester releases.
Nintendo denied the existence of the new slimmer DS the day before the release. They'd be stupid if they didn't. And by those standards, Microsoft's denial is quite a weak one. They have "no plans" (those could change) to release "a new console" (it wouldn't be a new console, just a redesign of an old one).
So my opinion is that those rumors sound quite plausible but if you decide to hold off on a console purchase in May 2008 because there might be a revision in mid to late 2009 you were just looking for excuses not to buy it anyway =)
I always thought that Airbus was fundamentally right to develop the A380 first. Regardless of where you see air travel in 20 years there'll always be a market for one huge plane but probably not for two. So for Airbus to develop the A380 now meant that they're the ones who're gonna take over from the 747. Boeing's probably gonna keep updating the 747 for some time but it'll be at a serious disadvantage to the newer 380 and unless demand for huge planes goes up dramatically or Boeing can offer the biggest breakthrough in aviation history they probably won't develop a competing plane for decades. OTOH the market for smaller planes like the 787 and the 350 is sufficiently large that even if Boeing got a major headstart, Airbus would still be able to compete effectively.
Of course, their plan got derailed by the 380 delays and Boeing's headstart kept getting larger and larger. Boeing's problems now just mean that we're back to where we were a few years ago.
The moral of the story is: Airbus wasn't about to die a year ago and Boeing's not gonna die because of this. Both will have setbacks and successes and we shouldn't blow them out of proportion.
If anything, the biggest danger to them is the WTO case because both Boeing and Airbus receive major subsidies.
The worst thing is, I'd still vote for him because Hillary and McCain are probably worse. If only his supporters would stop being so annoying. He's not a saint, he's a politician just like the rest, hell, he's better at negative campaigning than Hillary.
Also the most important factor of going back to actual human space exploration instead of a shuttle service is to inspire people. If seeing the mars landing inspires a child to work hard to become an astronaut, engineer or whatever it's certainly a lot more cost effective than throwing another few billion at the education system.
Compare it to other countries and US education's problem isn't even lack of money, the whole system's just fscked up.
Also, if Mister Universe would slash the DoD budget to more sane levels (i.e. less than the money spent by all other nations on earth combined when the majority of that money is spent by your allies), then instead a few billions he'd be able to distribute a few hundred billions and perhaps he could even give NASA another billion or two without anyone noticing.
Don't kid yourself. Lots of EU laws are being written by lobbyists. It's not uncommon for MEPs from completely different factions to submit literally the exact same proposal or amendment.
Which kinds of laws? It's just that the EP seems to be the lone voice of reason in many of the stuff we read here on/.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's about stuff where the EP has had actual power for longer because then lobbyists would have spent more time to undermine the process.
We (I live in the EU), too, have bad laws, and a patent office that has granted software patents.
Software patents that are unenforceable. The patent office and the corps both know that European law doesn't allow patenting abstract concepts. The patent office grants them anyway because that way the corporations apply for more patents and more applications means more money for the patent office. The corporations buy those useless pieces of paper because they're lobbying for US-like patent laws and want to be prepared for the glorious day when they can sue everyone into oblivion.
The great thing about the EU atm is that the parliament was a completely powerless entity until not too long ago and it's split into dozens of factions (there are a few big "parties" but as often as not MEPs will vote for the interests of their country or their region or whatnot) which means that it's not as thoroughly corrupted and not as easily corruptible as Congress or many EU State parliaments.
Or more specifically the corruption's petty like stealing office supplies and declaring holiday trips official fact-finding missions. It costs the tax payer a few millions at most and while it tells you something about your representatives it's vastly better than organized lobbying which really screws you over. I remember a quote where Bob Lutz complained that GM was in trouble because "Toyota has more representatives than we do."
Next on my hit list are the widgets. We need to be able to hide the widget launcher in the right hand corner of the desktop. I've always been able to keep a super-minimalist desktop with KDE, and this menu is nothing short of distracting.
Yep.
And why is the panel now a widget that can only accept other widgets (of which there are a very small amount)?
Because there's no reason to have half a dozen different classes and types of little doodads that are fundamentally identical.
Where are the great little applets and buttons from KDEs past?
Currently being rewritten.
Why can't I add an application launcher icon to the panel, like in any other desktop environment out there?
You can by now.
Why can't the panel be made to be a custom size?
Because they probably shouldn't have called KDE4.0 4.0.
KDE4 is a major rewrite the way KDE2 was. And if you think back KDE2 didn't become usable until KDE2.1/2.2 either but the code they wrote then was the basis for KDE all the way through the 3.x series. Linux 2.6, Gnome 2.0, none of them were ready for primetime and inclusion in distributions. But with OSS you have to release at some point because otherwise you end up with Enlightenment 0.17.
At least they 'fessed up and told us that the lack of functionality was caused by a lack of time and not by some brilliant vision for a new simpler, "more usable" DE. =P
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I like Obama, I really do, but sometimes it's hard to count yourself among his supporters. Ok, it's probably my fault for reading reddit (for the non-political stuff) but every time I visit that page I can't help but feel an irrational hatred towards Obama. It's not only all the "FUCK HILLARY!!!!!11 LOLTHXBY" headlines, it's mostly when they heartily applaud arcane primary rules and elections biased towards rural areas that favor Obama (e.g. Nevada). Or when the page erupted in Christmas and Easter celebrations over the allegations about McCain's affair.
They support all the stuff that helped Bush win in 2000 just because it helps their guy this time around. And this despite the fact that the last 8 years demonstrated that this "hey we can do this kind of thing, we're the Good Guys(TM)" thinking doesn't pan out long term.
I'm not naive enough to think that Hillary's supporters are better but (a) it's a lot easier to find rabid Obama fanboys on the internet and (b) Hillary doesn't run her campaign on moral superiority.
I don't think race is a big reason why white people are voting for or against Obama. (Race might be important for other groups, but I don't know enough to speak intelligently about that).
So what you're saying is that white people aren't racist. Only non-whites might be racist but how should you know what all those people with funny colored skins are thinking. I see.
Keep up the good work, we need more colorblind people like you.
"Copyright shelters only fixed, original and creative expression," which a football game isn't.
Not the game itself, but the officials provide original and creative renditions of the rules which themselves are written in prose so dense and inscrutable it makes James Joyce weep in his grave.
I know, remember I said there'd be an insurgency no matter what, something that never happened in Japan.
I just don't think that the basic attitudes towards the NATO troops (positive and negative) would be that different if we'd imposed our law book on them in addition to just being there. And I think the US bombing the shit out of weddings when they suspect there's a terrorist somewhere within 20 miles is much more of a problem than whether you can behead a man for saying damn. People won't see you as liberators if you behave like occupiers and I think in some cases a temporary retreat would be preferable to calling in an airstrike. But if they think we're occupiers anyway, why not go all the way and actually try to bring about change.
That is why democracy fails. It is literally two wolves and one lamb voting on what is for dinner. A constitutional republic is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote*.
Completely ignoring the fact that wolves are likely to be well armed too and much better trained and more ready to use violence.
"Between the weak and the strong one it is the freedom which oppresses and the law that liberates" --Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Our rights are based on the insight that everyone's in some kind of minority and that it's important to protect the rights of everyone instead of just the will of the majority.
In other words: We should have written the constitution and the law books as the US did in Japan after WWII, with some minor input by the Afghanis, to prevent stuff like this from happening. Yes, that would have alienated a lot of them but they don't love us now either. And if we have to go through an insurgency that will probably last for another decade we should at least make sure that we do it for a new order that's actually worth fighting for, not for a slight variation of the old one that's almost as oppressive but a tad less ready to export terrorism.
Another problem's of course that too many people in the West are ready to throw out 200 years of lessons learned the hard way to protect themselves against terrorism, the 456th leading cause of death in the western world.
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A lot of new cancer drugs actually work that way. People do desperate things when they are desperate.
A global alert was issued in 2005 after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 en-route to Kuala Lumpur from Perth experienced similar problems.
Investigators found a software glitch in a unit made by the same US manufacturer as the one in the Qantas plane combined with a mechanical problem.
Source
It doesn't need a reboot so it's (most likely) a software issue (stop the presses, Vista better than OSX at something) and we can hope that Apple will ignore the problem for a few weeks then deny that there is one and finally patch it just after Christmas.
If you prefer to believe that someone at MS actually got half a brain you could interpret it like this: Vista 64 is the new NT. It's not meant for Joe Average, instead it is meant for a relatively small subset of power users in a relatively controlled environment (i.e. no crazy hardware and crappy legacy apps) so MS can get some real world usage data while reading the new 2000 and XP which will transition the rest of us to 64 bits.
Of course, looking at the rest of Vista it's more likely that they were on crack.
Lots of people depended on lots of 16bit software that used too many hacks for it to work at acceptable speeds on an emulation layer (on 1995 hardware, of course).
Win95/98 was necessary. WinME was a spawn of satan though.
Windows Habitat Destruction (Windows 7),
Windows Automatic Weapon (Windows Mobile) and
Windows Holocene Extinction Event (Windows Server)
I know that you were just trying to be funny. But honestly, this is the 1-in-1000 /. story that actually explains what it's talking about in the second sentence:
The game allows the creation of puzzles from a collection of simple objects and tools.
So, kudos to Soulskill who did not remove the useful part of the submission. You must be new here.
Compare this picture of Skylab to this one of the ISS. Especially the size of the Apollo service module which is smaller than Columbus.
Yes, as if South Ossetia needed protection from freedom loving Georgians who after all were liberating the shit out of them until the big bad Russians came.
Georgia is a friendly, peace loving country and the reason everyone and his dog wants independence from them is just the big bad Russians supporting terrorists.
Of course Russia is hypocritical after the whole Chechnya thing but they can just recycle all the platitudes the US came up with for Kosovo and Iraq.
KDE (3.x at least) had a config file option to reverse the button order (unfortunately I can't remember where, you'll have to google for it), afaik Gnome doesn't.
It should be quite easy to create an image containing KOffice and all dependencies (perhaps with a seperate image for kdelibs+Qt) that you can download and that then acts as a repository for the packages themselves.
But imho KDE4Win won't be ready for primetime before KDE4.2 and an online installer with separate packages is superior for frequent developer/beta-tester releases.
So my opinion is that those rumors sound quite plausible but if you decide to hold off on a console purchase in May 2008 because there might be a revision in mid to late 2009 you were just looking for excuses not to buy it anyway =)
Of course, their plan got derailed by the 380 delays and Boeing's headstart kept getting larger and larger. Boeing's problems now just mean that we're back to where we were a few years ago.
The moral of the story is: Airbus wasn't about to die a year ago and Boeing's not gonna die because of this. Both will have setbacks and successes and we shouldn't blow them out of proportion.
If anything, the biggest danger to them is the WTO case because both Boeing and Airbus receive major subsidies.
In Soviet Florida he changes his message.
The worst thing is, I'd still vote for him because Hillary and McCain are probably worse. If only his supporters would stop being so annoying. He's not a saint, he's a politician just like the rest, hell, he's better at negative campaigning than Hillary.
Compare it to other countries and US education's problem isn't even lack of money, the whole system's just fscked up.
Also, if Mister Universe would slash the DoD budget to more sane levels (i.e. less than the money spent by all other nations on earth combined when the majority of that money is spent by your allies), then instead a few billions he'd be able to distribute a few hundred billions and perhaps he could even give NASA another billion or two without anyone noticing.
Which kinds of laws? It's just that the EP seems to be the lone voice of reason in many of the stuff we read here on /.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's about stuff where the EP has had actual power for longer because then lobbyists would have spent more time to undermine the process.
So you're in the 90%, not the 10%?
Software patents that are unenforceable. The patent office and the corps both know that European law doesn't allow patenting abstract concepts. The patent office grants them anyway because that way the corporations apply for more patents and more applications means more money for the patent office. The corporations buy those useless pieces of paper because they're lobbying for US-like patent laws and want to be prepared for the glorious day when they can sue everyone into oblivion.
The great thing about the EU atm is that the parliament was a completely powerless entity until not too long ago and it's split into dozens of factions (there are a few big "parties" but as often as not MEPs will vote for the interests of their country or their region or whatnot) which means that it's not as thoroughly corrupted and not as easily corruptible as Congress or many EU State parliaments.
Or more specifically the corruption's petty like stealing office supplies and declaring holiday trips official fact-finding missions. It costs the tax payer a few millions at most and while it tells you something about your representatives it's vastly better than organized lobbying which really screws you over. I remember a quote where Bob Lutz complained that GM was in trouble because "Toyota has more representatives than we do."
Yep.
And why is the panel now a widget that can only accept other widgets (of which there are a very small amount)?
Because there's no reason to have half a dozen different classes and types of little doodads that are fundamentally identical.
Where are the great little applets and buttons from KDEs past?
Currently being rewritten.
Why can't I add an application launcher icon to the panel, like in any other desktop environment out there?
You can by now.
Why can't the panel be made to be a custom size?
Because they probably shouldn't have called KDE4.0 4.0.
KDE4 is a major rewrite the way KDE2 was. And if you think back KDE2 didn't become usable until KDE2.1/2.2 either but the code they wrote then was the basis for KDE all the way through the 3.x series. Linux 2.6, Gnome 2.0, none of them were ready for primetime and inclusion in distributions. But with OSS you have to release at some point because otherwise you end up with Enlightenment 0.17.
At least they 'fessed up and told us that the lack of functionality was caused by a lack of time and not by some brilliant vision for a new simpler, "more usable" DE. =P
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I like Obama, I really do, but sometimes it's hard to count yourself among his supporters. Ok, it's probably my fault for reading reddit (for the non-political stuff) but every time I visit that page I can't help but feel an irrational hatred towards Obama. It's not only all the "FUCK HILLARY!!!!!11 LOLTHXBY" headlines, it's mostly when they heartily applaud arcane primary rules and elections biased towards rural areas that favor Obama (e.g. Nevada). Or when the page erupted in Christmas and Easter celebrations over the allegations about McCain's affair.
They support all the stuff that helped Bush win in 2000 just because it helps their guy this time around. And this despite the fact that the last 8 years demonstrated that this "hey we can do this kind of thing, we're the Good Guys(TM)" thinking doesn't pan out long term.
I'm not naive enough to think that Hillary's supporters are better but (a) it's a lot easier to find rabid Obama fanboys on the internet and (b) Hillary doesn't run her campaign on moral superiority.
No, it's Taco's fault. Everyone knows rms is case sensitive
So what you're saying is that white people aren't racist. Only non-whites might be racist but how should you know what all those people with funny colored skins are thinking. I see.
Keep up the good work, we need more colorblind people like you.
Not the game itself, but the officials provide original and creative renditions of the rules which themselves are written in prose so dense and inscrutable it makes James Joyce weep in his grave.
I just don't think that the basic attitudes towards the NATO troops (positive and negative) would be that different if we'd imposed our law book on them in addition to just being there. And I think the US bombing the shit out of weddings when they suspect there's a terrorist somewhere within 20 miles is much more of a problem than whether you can behead a man for saying damn. People won't see you as liberators if you behave like occupiers and I think in some cases a temporary retreat would be preferable to calling in an airstrike. But if they think we're occupiers anyway, why not go all the way and actually try to bring about change.
jm2c
Completely ignoring the fact that wolves are likely to be well armed too and much better trained and more ready to use violence.
Our rights are based on the insight that everyone's in some kind of minority and that it's important to protect the rights of everyone instead of just the will of the majority.
In other words: We should have written the constitution and the law books as the US did in Japan after WWII, with some minor input by the Afghanis, to prevent stuff like this from happening. Yes, that would have alienated a lot of them but they don't love us now either. And if we have to go through an insurgency that will probably last for another decade we should at least make sure that we do it for a new order that's actually worth fighting for, not for a slight variation of the old one that's almost as oppressive but a tad less ready to export terrorism.
Another problem's of course that too many people in the West are ready to throw out 200 years of lessons learned the hard way to protect themselves against terrorism, the 456th leading cause of death in the western world.