Well, the difference really is minimal given that the "fix" for the much-hated and derided "spatial" view has been built into gconf ever since spatial was introduced, and was only somewhat more recently incorporated directly into Nautilus preferences. The whole idea of introducing that Win95 "feature" was one of the more craniorectal decisions on the part of the Gnome developers, and I suspect they knew it.
Slipping a more sensible default in by stealth after everybody had been accustomed to toggling the preference is probably as close to an apology as we'll get.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trolling: I've been a Gnome user since pre-1.0, but there have been times when I have felt that some of the developers needed a good whack with a cluebat.
I would surmise that it should be a lot easier for Panasonic to come up with a comparatively safe battery if they don't have to worry so much about the space and weight considerations prevalent with phone and laptop batteries. Bear in mind that a bank of lead-acid batteries can also present an explosion hazard while being charged.
I would be curious to see a realistic projection for lifespan of these batteries, though. Lead-acid batteries, while reliable, aren't good for much more than 5 years before they have to be expensively and messily replaced. Li-ion batteries should at least offer a saving on space, even if the lifespan is no better. I have no anecdotal information on what is required for recycling Li-ion batteries, but I doubt if the environmental damage could be much worse than that from the present lead-acid alternative.
Hmmm. Methinks you misjudge the work of a trucker. A trucker tends to be (in fact has to be) a highly tech-savvy person with an aptitude for maintaining a very high level of concentration for long periods of time.
Even if you never use it in your employment, I would suggest that the time and expense of learning to drive a seriously heavy truck would be well spent.
If I have a problem with my browser (or any other piece of software, for that matter), the last thing I want is relics from the last session getting in the way when I re-launch it. I prefer to start from a known-good state. Firefox has the ability to recover tabs etc if a particular site crashes the browser, and that's usually good enough.
I'm no fan of Stephen Conroy's Great Wall of Australia, but the owners of the site in question can't have any claim to legitimacy if they fraudulently use someone else's name to register it.
...non tech-saavy people still using it on their Windows XP PCs that have never considered or don't know how to upgrade.
I think that must be a sort of psychological road-block where people imagine that the shiny CDROM that came with their computer represents some form of unsullied purity in their system that all those hundreds of megabytes of updates from Microsoft can only corrupt.
Or something.
I still occasionally find individuals using Netscape 4.0...
they're deathly afraid of corners, and they nearly stop every time there's the slightest bend in the road.
You could say the same about Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Back when I was in my teens we used to charitably refer to those as prams, since a pram stands a better chance of negotiating a bend in the road.
Having said that, I have owned several Indians which were really fun to ride...
Well, I'm not going to bag Saabs, because I haven't driven them enough to become impressed or otherwise with them. It's nice that they thought to supply a bit of head-room, and they don't drive badly. But parts are outrageously and unnecessarily expensive, and that kind of cynical gouging of customers doesn't impress me. It's a pity other manufacturers don't take that message on board.
But if I need a vehicle that is guaranteed to be 100% reliable in the worst of conditions, I would rate my old 1950 Chamberlain tractor above any Saab, even if it does only do 40 rods to the hogshead.
But they were "great" at their original design goal as stated: a good car in bad weather.
Even the old Citroen 2CV was/is good in snow and ice. I dare say you could probably say the same about a lot of front-wheel-drive cars, though I wouldn't care to trust my life to a Daewoo.
I hadn't heard about that re-badging - I suspect we don't see those models here in Australia. We mostly see Subaru as a replacement for the Volvo as the weapon of choice for incompetent suburban drivers. At least Volvo made sense as an acronym: Voluntarily OverLoaded with Vile Offspring.
I'm not even sure that a major premise of their pattern is correct. From the submission: the researchers created a mathematical model which assumes that insurgent groups form and fragment when they sense danger, and strike in well-timed bursts to maximize their media exposure.
One could probably form a strong argument (perhaps even with a valid mathematical basis) that suggests that so-called "insurgent" actions have worn out their welcome, and news of them floats in a featureless sea of similar actions. It doesn't help the "insurgents'" cause that they have little record for being nice to their own people, so they can only garner support from the most polarised of those they choose to leave alive.
I'm not even a potential Verizon customer, since they have no presence here in Australia, but pricing out any plan is largely an exercise in futility, given that just about all telcos are notorious for moving the goalposts as soon as you've signed on the dotted line. All you can do is run your costings on what they're offering at any given moment, in the hope that there isn't some buried clause in your contract that allows them to multiply the costs by x^n under whatever circumstances they hadn't seen fit to mention before. Or in the hope that the clause that says they can "vary the terms of your contract without bothering to tell you" won't come back to bite you on the bum.
You do realize that the Yanks are the only ones who are actually working on the problem, don't you? I mean, I know you're intentionally trolling...
Oh, dear. Slashdot for the humour-impaired. I will happily concede that my post was intentionally flamebaity, and was moderated appropriately as such. But wilfully interpreting what was self-evidently a joke (by way of response to another joke) as a troll post suggests that you take yourself way too seriously.
You all wonder why people don't listen to you when you attack various people (Palin) or groups of people (Creationists) viciously, tactlessly, and without any kind of respect.
Actually, I don't wonder anything of the sort. Sarah Palin and the Creationists (hey, that sounds like the name of a band) are so self-evidently ridiculous, nothing I say can make them look any more stupid than they already are.
Don't worry, the Americans will be too busy running around being neurotic or praying to a nonexistent god to actually do anything, so we're probably safe.
I guess a mitigating factor here is that nobody except a total loser would ever bother reading posts on Twitter anyway, so the invasion of privacy was more or less meaningless...
And why would I need to learn more specifics about other distributions? When I'm there, I can easily see what groups are on the systems.
Sure you can, but you made a blanket statement about Linux (in general) that was patently inaccurate. You surely can't expect nobody to call you on that.
As for your aversion to Slackware, that's just fine. If you don't like the way Slack handles packages, I'm not going to insist that you should. I don't happen to care for rpm or deb packaging, though I recognise their advantages to those who appreciate such things. My own preference (FWIW) is Arch's pacman, which offers a nice compromise between Slackware's "brute-force" system and the more flexible apt-get.
The old Mac laptop I'm using as a de facto media box until the HDD dies has a Matshita optical drive. I've changed the region encoding a couple of times, most recently in an attempt to make it region-free, but as I mentioned earlier, that doesn't work with all discs. But I have had a 100% success rate playing all my DVDs with VLC. I haven't read the code, and I'm not going to, so I don't know how much VLC plays with those region fields (if at all) but it plays everything the Apple DVD Player rejects, with no objections. The region encoding, for practical purposes, might as well not be there at all.
Sort of, but the "non-intrusive" part depends on your perspective. I could live with a few text-only ads, but they are probably a wolf in sheep's clothing when hitched up to googleanalytics and whatever other scraping systems they've devised.
I prefer to live without any ads, so I keep my hosts file as current as I can, and use adblock and flashblock for fine-tuning.
If content providers don't like that, they might want to think about making the ads less obnoxious. And if a site insists on shoving hover-ads in my face, that domain gets totally blacklisted with no right of appeal.
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Well, the difference really is minimal given that the "fix" for the much-hated and derided "spatial" view has been built into gconf ever since spatial was introduced, and was only somewhat more recently incorporated directly into Nautilus preferences. The whole idea of introducing that Win95 "feature" was one of the more craniorectal decisions on the part of the Gnome developers, and I suspect they knew it.
Slipping a more sensible default in by stealth after everybody had been accustomed to toggling the preference is probably as close to an apology as we'll get.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trolling: I've been a Gnome user since pre-1.0, but there have been times when I have felt that some of the developers needed a good whack with a cluebat.
I would surmise that it should be a lot easier for Panasonic to come up with a comparatively safe battery if they don't have to worry so much about the space and weight considerations prevalent with phone and laptop batteries. Bear in mind that a bank of lead-acid batteries can also present an explosion hazard while being charged.
I would be curious to see a realistic projection for lifespan of these batteries, though. Lead-acid batteries, while reliable, aren't good for much more than 5 years before they have to be expensively and messily replaced. Li-ion batteries should at least offer a saving on space, even if the lifespan is no better. I have no anecdotal information on what is required for recycling Li-ion batteries, but I doubt if the environmental damage could be much worse than that from the present lead-acid alternative.
What would the implications be if the twitter account was hacked?
Absolutely nothing, since Twitter is just a place where twats blather their vacuous crap into the void.
Hmmm. Methinks you misjudge the work of a trucker. A trucker tends to be (in fact has to be) a highly tech-savvy person with an aptitude for maintaining a very high level of concentration for long periods of time.
Even if you never use it in your employment, I would suggest that the time and expense of learning to drive a seriously heavy truck would be well spent.
In other words, the work of a true programmer is beyond recompense: for citation see The Tao of Programming
If I have a problem with my browser (or any other piece of software, for that matter), the last thing I want is relics from the last session getting in the way when I re-launch it. I prefer to start from a known-good state. Firefox has the ability to recover tabs etc if a particular site crashes the browser, and that's usually good enough.
I'm no fan of Stephen Conroy's Great Wall of Australia, but the owners of the site in question can't have any claim to legitimacy if they fraudulently use someone else's name to register it.
...non tech-saavy people still using it on their Windows XP PCs that have never considered or don't know how to upgrade.
I think that must be a sort of psychological road-block where people imagine that the shiny CDROM that came with their computer represents some form of unsullied purity in their system that all those hundreds of megabytes of updates from Microsoft can only corrupt.
Or something.
I still occasionally find individuals using Netscape 4.0...
they're deathly afraid of corners, and they nearly stop every time there's the slightest bend in the road.
You could say the same about Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Back when I was in my teens we used to charitably refer to those as prams, since a pram stands a better chance of negotiating a bend in the road.
Having said that, I have owned several Indians which were really fun to ride...
Well, I'm not going to bag Saabs, because I haven't driven them enough to become impressed or otherwise with them. It's nice that they thought to supply a bit of head-room, and they don't drive badly. But parts are outrageously and unnecessarily expensive, and that kind of cynical gouging of customers doesn't impress me. It's a pity other manufacturers don't take that message on board.
But if I need a vehicle that is guaranteed to be 100% reliable in the worst of conditions, I would rate my old 1950 Chamberlain tractor above any Saab, even if it does only do 40 rods to the hogshead.
But they were "great" at their original design goal as stated: a good car in bad weather.
Even the old Citroen 2CV was/is good in snow and ice. I dare say you could probably say the same about a lot of front-wheel-drive cars, though I wouldn't care to trust my life to a Daewoo.
I hadn't heard about that re-badging - I suspect we don't see those models here in Australia. We mostly see Subaru as a replacement for the Volvo as the weapon of choice for incompetent suburban drivers. At least Volvo made sense as an acronym: Voluntarily OverLoaded with Vile Offspring.
Succulently?
;-P
You really shouldn't use such words around married readers...
I'm not even sure that a major premise of their pattern is correct. From the submission: the researchers created a mathematical model which assumes that insurgent groups form and fragment when they sense danger, and strike in well-timed bursts to maximize their media exposure.
One could probably form a strong argument (perhaps even with a valid mathematical basis) that suggests that so-called "insurgent" actions have worn out their welcome, and news of them floats in a featureless sea of similar actions. It doesn't help the "insurgents'" cause that they have little record for being nice to their own people, so they can only garner support from the most polarised of those they choose to leave alive.
I'm not even a potential Verizon customer, since they have no presence here in Australia, but pricing out any plan is largely an exercise in futility, given that just about all telcos are notorious for moving the goalposts as soon as you've signed on the dotted line. All you can do is run your costings on what they're offering at any given moment, in the hope that there isn't some buried clause in your contract that allows them to multiply the costs by x^n under whatever circumstances they hadn't seen fit to mention before. Or in the hope that the clause that says they can "vary the terms of your contract without bothering to tell you" won't come back to bite you on the bum.
You do realize that the Yanks are the only ones who are actually working on the problem, don't you? I mean, I know you're intentionally trolling...
Oh, dear. Slashdot for the humour-impaired. I will happily concede that my post was intentionally flamebaity, and was moderated appropriately as such. But wilfully interpreting what was self-evidently a joke (by way of response to another joke) as a troll post suggests that you take yourself way too seriously.
I guess that might depend on whether your yetis are house-trained...
Fair enough, but where else to look for dark matter but in a dark mine? After all, everybody knows night is caused by accretions of black air... :-P
You all wonder why people don't listen to you when you attack various people (Palin) or groups of people (Creationists) viciously, tactlessly, and without any kind of respect.
Actually, I don't wonder anything of the sort. Sarah Palin and the Creationists (hey, that sounds like the name of a band) are so self-evidently ridiculous, nothing I say can make them look any more stupid than they already are.
Impacts are happening all the time. We hardly even noticed Tunguska.
:-P
Even an American might notice a fucking great asteroid bouncing off his head.
Don't worry, the Americans will be too busy running around being neurotic or praying to a nonexistent god to actually do anything, so we're probably safe.
I guess a mitigating factor here is that nobody except a total loser would ever bother reading posts on Twitter anyway, so the invasion of privacy was more or less meaningless...
And why would I need to learn more specifics about other distributions? When I'm there, I can easily see what groups are on the systems.
Sure you can, but you made a blanket statement about Linux (in general) that was patently inaccurate. You surely can't expect nobody to call you on that.
As for your aversion to Slackware, that's just fine. If you don't like the way Slack handles packages, I'm not going to insist that you should. I don't happen to care for rpm or deb packaging, though I recognise their advantages to those who appreciate such things. My own preference (FWIW) is Arch's pacman, which offers a nice compromise between Slackware's "brute-force" system and the more flexible apt-get.
The old Mac laptop I'm using as a de facto media box until the HDD dies has a Matshita optical drive. I've changed the region encoding a couple of times, most recently in an attempt to make it region-free, but as I mentioned earlier, that doesn't work with all discs. But I have had a 100% success rate playing all my DVDs with VLC. I haven't read the code, and I'm not going to, so I don't know how much VLC plays with those region fields (if at all) but it plays everything the Apple DVD Player rejects, with no objections. The region encoding, for practical purposes, might as well not be there at all.
Sort of, but the "non-intrusive" part depends on your perspective. I could live with a few text-only ads, but they are probably a wolf in sheep's clothing when hitched up to googleanalytics and whatever other scraping systems they've devised.
I prefer to live without any ads, so I keep my hosts file as current as I can, and use adblock and flashblock for fine-tuning.
If content providers don't like that, they might want to think about making the ads less obnoxious. And if a site insists on shoving hover-ads in my face, that domain gets totally blacklisted with no right of appeal.