Heh. I started reading that link, but stopped at the point where Sup was described as a mutt-killer. Wouldn't like to think that every time I used it, a puppy-dog would die...
...but not so much if you recall other aspects such as his denial of paternity of a daughter (with Chrisann Brennan), claiming he was sterile, then going on to father three more sprogs with someone else. Creepy.:-|
Indeed. And that, as far as I can see, is the only point on which RMS has missed the mark. We all die, whether we want to or not, and "deserving" to die doesn't even come into it, since there's no other option.
My first 4-digit ID got orphaned when I got bored with the account name. Actually, I'm now bored with this one, but just too lazy to do anything about it.
Although I'm not much of an Apple fanboy, I think their trackpad implementation, which makes the right-click redundant, is quite cool. I wouldn't mind one for my Linux desktop machine.
Has anyone here tried it, and if so, ho did it go?
As far as I can see, the only way they would be less than useful is if the user is so digitally impaired as to have only one finger on his mouse hand. Even then, IIRC there's an option to assign multiple taps of the trackpad.
...just fixes for the most egregious bugs in their current version.
Hmm. Maybe you didn't see that quote at the end of the submission:
"Microsoft 'promised' the Commission it would keep Skype inoperable and supported on rival operating systems." [Note the correction.]
I have used and supported Skype for many years (and still do), but let's be honest: Microsoft's support for the product can hardly be in any way worse than the earlier vendors'. Skype's history is littered with design and implementation mistakes, backed by high-handed, capricious or just plain non-existent support, especially on non-Windows platforms.
If it weren't for the fact that Skype does two basic things quite well (VOIP and IM) in an integrated client, I might have abandoned it long ago. Not to mention the fact that it still occupies a position in the head-space of many of my friends and family.
Passwords do not really matter. Their scanning device bypasses passwords.
Do they have one for Android? And if so, how can it work? An Android phone is essentially a Linux box, and I don't know of any such machine that will casually allow a connection from some arbitrary USB device to root the system.
Neither of the above. You could just let the pigs waste their time (and taxpayers' money) being bored shitless by your lame pictures of your last birthday party or your cats and dogs.
So where do we get a cell phone with real encryption?
More to the point, why have some of us allowed ourselves to be duped into any expectation of privacy or security with a device that can be swiped from your pocket and scraped for data in moments?
Probably just about any of us could secure data on our laptop machines in such a way as to make unauthorised recovery at least challenging. But (for the moment, at least) a phone is, well, pretty much just a phone with a few doodads on it to give us something to do other than playing minesweeper. The pervasiveness of mobile handsets and applications has way outstripped their rudimentary little safeguards, and anyone who entrusts anything important to such a device most likely deserves a salutary shock.
Let us not fool around with asinine platitudes about speaking ill of the dead. Anything we say now about Jobs can't hurt him any more than when he was alive, so let us be honest:
Steve Jobs was a prize shit, and in my considered opinion the world is a better place without him in it.
They make good mirrors apart from the hole in the middle.
Even with the hole, they are worth keeping for that purpose if you ever do mechanical work on your car. There are always bits that are hard to see or get at, and those platters are quite handy. I prefer the metal ones, since the glass platters can break into lots of sharp bits.
Years ago I used to be a blacksmith, and I still have all my tools. The best way I've found to destroy a hard drive is to give it a wallop or two with my 400-pound power hammer. If there is anyone on the planet who can read data off a drive that is less than a millimetre thick, then they have my congratulations.
Incidentally, those lanthanide magnets that they use for the arm actuator are great for holding stuff on to my fridge, so I always make a point of taking those out of the drive first.
Can someone explain to me... why Gnome or any other desktop environment would be better than what I have been happy with for five years now...
No.
If you have found a desktop environment that works for you, then that's good. If the developers of your chosen DE have not decided to pull the rug from under you, then it's even better. Enjoy your life.:-)
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Where the hell have you been?
On a planet that doesn't use Ubuntu.
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Those devs are not paid to do some boring minor maintenance for the next ten years... I don't have the money to hire them and keep my desktop working as it is:-)
Neither do I. The net result is that I have now left Gnome to go along its merry way. I have been a loyal supporter of the project since before version 1.0, since I quite liked it, even when alternatives sometimes "just worked" better.
I put up with occasional craniorectal dumbing-down of the interface when there were sufficient positive improvements, but my attempts to use Gnome 3 failed utterly. I have to use my machines to do actual work, and the new interface just got in my way. I am now alternating between XFCE and KDE in combination with compiz-fusion. In the past, I really hated KDE, but it's now quite smooth and uncluttered, while much more configurable.
I can't imagine paying out a single cent for any piece of software or hardware that is going to feed me advertising. That is just not an option. I would rather do without, and read a dead-tree book.
Actually, I don't see myself abandoning paper books at all, but there are thousands of publications that I would like to read, but to which I don't consider sufficiently significant to devote shelf space.
I can't comment on Sony's other models, but my wife's Sony PRS-650 screen doesn't seem to show any marks. (Though it does also have page-turn buttons if you prefer to use them.) But I guess it all depends on how grubby your fingers are...;-)
If I ever get a tablet, I want one that behaves functionally identically to a laptop. I want to be able to run it as a command-line terminal, behave intuitively with Emacs and run a non-crippled browser. It doesn't look like this is going to materialise any time soon, so I'll stick to using my computers for what they're good for, and use dead-tree books for reading.
One day I'll own an e-book reader, but I don't want to be locked into downloading stuff only from Amazon. A while back, I gave my wife a Sony PRS 650 for her birthday, and it looks awesome.
Heh. I wrote lots of Fortran IV code back in the day, and I wouldn't be too surprised if a lot of it was still in use. As the famous article says, "If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing."
I sort of missed the boat with F77. By the time that came around, I was already playing with C. However, I always found FTN a lot more concise.
why in the world did Zuckerberg not take the $7B or whatever the latest FB offer was for and run with it?
Another equally pertinent question: why run with it? Why not simply sit down and spend the money, give (or gamble) it away, or whatever rocks your boat?
I will never have such funds at my disposal, but if I did, I would probably give most of it away to some suitably worthy cause, while keeping a portion to set up a few projects of interest. I know one or two people who have managed to amass very large fortunes, and I struggle to understand their mindset where most of their waking moments are spent on preventing taxation offices from getting their claws into those funds. Seems to me that there are better ways to spend one's life.
Many resourceful students or academics make some attempt to cash in on some aspect of their work, within the IP restrictions imposed by their institutions. After all, most never succeed in scoring full-time or fully-funded work, so are usually left to scratch a living in any way they can. While there are a few big-name success stories, most have to make do with modest success in a specialist niche. Here's an example whom I know personally...
and then it was big enough to be bought (and put out to pasture to die) by Blackboard...
I wish. WebCT is alive and well, and still in use at many universities and other colleges. I have seen it in use over 12 years of academic life, since it seems to have become a fixture at my uni. That doesn't stop me hating it, though.
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Heh. I started reading that link, but stopped at the point where Sup was described as a mutt-killer. Wouldn't like to think that every time I used it, a puppy-dog would die...
That seriously improves his image a lot...
...but not so much if you recall other aspects such as his denial of paternity of a daughter (with Chrisann Brennan), claiming he was sterile, then going on to father three more sprogs with someone else. Creepy. :-|
Indeed. And that, as far as I can see, is the only point on which RMS has missed the mark. We all die, whether we want to or not, and "deserving" to die doesn't even come into it, since there's no other option.
My first 4-digit ID got orphaned when I got bored with the account name. Actually, I'm now bored with this one, but just too lazy to do anything about it.
Although I'm not much of an Apple fanboy, I think their trackpad implementation, which makes the right-click redundant, is quite cool. I wouldn't mind one for my Linux desktop machine.
Has anyone here tried it, and if so, ho did it go?
As far as I can see, the only way they would be less than useful is if the user is so digitally impaired as to have only one finger on his mouse hand. Even then, IIRC there's an option to assign multiple taps of the trackpad.
Actually 9 month delay would be a big improvement for a Linux version.
Agreed. But the upside is that they haven't seen the need to fuck up the UI like they did with that fugly new Mac version.
...just fixes for the most egregious bugs in their current version.
Hmm. Maybe you didn't see that quote at the end of the submission:
"Microsoft 'promised' the Commission it would keep Skype inoperable and supported on rival operating systems." [Note the correction.]
I have used and supported Skype for many years (and still do), but let's be honest: Microsoft's support for the product can hardly be in any way worse than the earlier vendors'. Skype's history is littered with design and implementation mistakes, backed by high-handed, capricious or just plain non-existent support, especially on non-Windows platforms.
If it weren't for the fact that Skype does two basic things quite well (VOIP and IM) in an integrated client, I might have abandoned it long ago. Not to mention the fact that it still occupies a position in the head-space of many of my friends and family.
Passwords do not really matter. Their scanning device bypasses passwords.
Do they have one for Android? And if so, how can it work? An Android phone is essentially a Linux box, and I don't know of any such machine that will casually allow a connection from some arbitrary USB device to root the system.
Which one's easier?
Neither of the above. You could just let the pigs waste their time (and taxpayers' money) being bored shitless by your lame pictures of your last birthday party or your cats and dogs.
So where do we get a cell phone with real encryption?
More to the point, why have some of us allowed ourselves to be duped into any expectation of privacy or security with a device that can be swiped from your pocket and scraped for data in moments?
Probably just about any of us could secure data on our laptop machines in such a way as to make unauthorised recovery at least challenging. But (for the moment, at least) a phone is, well, pretty much just a phone with a few doodads on it to give us something to do other than playing minesweeper. The pervasiveness of mobile handsets and applications has way outstripped their rudimentary little safeguards, and anyone who entrusts anything important to such a device most likely deserves a salutary shock.
Let us not fool around with asinine platitudes about speaking ill of the dead. Anything we say now about Jobs can't hurt him any more than when he was alive, so let us be honest:
Steve Jobs was a prize shit, and in my considered opinion the world is a better place without him in it.
They make good mirrors apart from the hole in the middle.
Even with the hole, they are worth keeping for that purpose if you ever do mechanical work on your car. There are always bits that are hard to see or get at, and those platters are quite handy. I prefer the metal ones, since the glass platters can break into lots of sharp bits.
Years ago I used to be a blacksmith, and I still have all my tools. The best way I've found to destroy a hard drive is to give it a wallop or two with my 400-pound power hammer. If there is anyone on the planet who can read data off a drive that is less than a millimetre thick, then they have my congratulations.
Incidentally, those lanthanide magnets that they use for the arm actuator are great for holding stuff on to my fridge, so I always make a point of taking those out of the drive first.
Can someone explain to me... why Gnome or any other desktop environment would be better than what I have been happy with for five years now...
No.
:-)
If you have found a desktop environment that works for you, then that's good. If the developers of your chosen DE have not decided to pull the rug from under you, then it's even better. Enjoy your life.
Where the hell have you been?
On a planet that doesn't use Ubuntu.
Those devs are not paid to do some boring minor maintenance for the next ten years... I don't have the money to hire them and keep my desktop working as it is :-)
Neither do I. The net result is that I have now left Gnome to go along its merry way. I have been a loyal supporter of the project since before version 1.0, since I quite liked it, even when alternatives sometimes "just worked" better.
I put up with occasional craniorectal dumbing-down of the interface when there were sufficient positive improvements, but my attempts to use Gnome 3 failed utterly. I have to use my machines to do actual work, and the new interface just got in my way. I am now alternating between XFCE and KDE in combination with compiz-fusion. In the past, I really hated KDE, but it's now quite smooth and uncluttered, while much more configurable.
Actually the Kindle Touch is $139 without ads...
I can't imagine paying out a single cent for any piece of software or hardware that is going to feed me advertising. That is just not an option. I would rather do without, and read a dead-tree book.
Actually, I don't see myself abandoning paper books at all, but there are thousands of publications that I would like to read, but to which I don't consider sufficiently significant to devote shelf space.
I can't comment on Sony's other models, but my wife's Sony PRS-650 screen doesn't seem to show any marks. (Though it does also have page-turn buttons if you prefer to use them.) But I guess it all depends on how grubby your fingers are... ;-)
If I ever get a tablet, I want one that behaves functionally identically to a laptop. I want to be able to run it as a command-line terminal, behave intuitively with Emacs and run a non-crippled browser. It doesn't look like this is going to materialise any time soon, so I'll stick to using my computers for what they're good for, and use dead-tree books for reading.
One day I'll own an e-book reader, but I don't want to be locked into downloading stuff only from Amazon. A while back, I gave my wife a Sony PRS 650 for her birthday, and it looks awesome.
99% of code sucks.
Wrong: a 10^3x wrong. 49% of code sucks.
Another 49% blows.
Heh. I wrote lots of Fortran IV code back in the day, and I wouldn't be too surprised if a lot of it was still in use. As the famous article says, "If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing."
I sort of missed the boat with F77. By the time that came around, I was already playing with C. However, I always found FTN a lot more concise.
why in the world did Zuckerberg not take the $7B or whatever the latest FB offer was for and run with it?
Another equally pertinent question: why run with it? Why not simply sit down and spend the money, give (or gamble) it away, or whatever rocks your boat?
I will never have such funds at my disposal, but if I did, I would probably give most of it away to some suitably worthy cause, while keeping a portion to set up a few projects of interest. I know one or two people who have managed to amass very large fortunes, and I struggle to understand their mindset where most of their waking moments are spent on preventing taxation offices from getting their claws into those funds. Seems to me that there are better ways to spend one's life.
Many resourceful students or academics make some attempt to cash in on some aspect of their work, within the IP restrictions imposed by their institutions. After all, most never succeed in scoring full-time or fully-funded work, so are usually left to scratch a living in any way they can. While there are a few big-name success stories, most have to make do with modest success in a specialist niche. Here's an example whom I know personally...
This. :-D
and then it was big enough to be bought (and put out to pasture to die) by Blackboard...
I wish. WebCT is alive and well, and still in use at many universities and other colleges. I have seen it in use over 12 years of academic life, since it seems to have become a fixture at my uni. That doesn't stop me hating it, though.