The headline suggests IE is only going to have basic tabs because they think we can't handle them. The reality is that the beta will have basic tabs because they aren't complete, and that they fully agree that leaving tabs out because "people will be confused" was a mistake in IE6.
Man, they just can't win. Should they leave the feature out and be criticised for non-conformance, or include it and be criticised for lack of innovation?
Ah the old Slashdot spin machine... actually if you read the IE Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx the developers are clear that they made the WRONG decision in avoiding tabs the first time, and the tabs will be basic only at the time of beta, but they will be adding more features afterwards.
What goes on in the real world? Are you serious? How much proper OO code exists out there in C++, in use by industry? C++ is a joke. Not that you can't write good code if you choose a sane subset of its features, but few do that, instead writing glorified C using C++ syntax. QT is an excellent example, though - I agree.
how about reading the article before trashing on Stallman? He says very clearly that they WON'T fork OOo development and instead focus on improving GCC's java front-end, and making sure that OOo works with it.
The concern is/was that a free software solution can't have a non-free dependency (Sun JRE). He's making sure that doesn't happen. No one cares that it is written in Java per se.
Actually that's an EXCELLENT point... by your rationale we should actually stop calling it OS-X and just call it Mach, since the kernel apparenlty gets to name the whole OS. Oh wait, you say that the rest of the OS took a lot of hard work to develop? Maybe calling Linux just plain GNU would make more sense.
If you want to charge for your QT-based software, you have to pay for a QT license. If you want to release free QT software you don't have to pay for anything. Sounds totally fair to me... you want something for nothing?
The default taskbar looks nothing like his... he has a quicklaunch filling almost the entire thing.
And how is KDE anything except consistent?? Practically everything is a part of the core KDE packages, and they're very well integrated. Gnome pales in comparison!
As a canadian who has hated just about every artist this place has ever produced, I agree. The Arcade Fire hauls serious ass, and will be the Next Big Thing if i have any say in the matter.
well, except that kernel32 is not monolithic and doesn't contain device drivers. But I agree with your sentiment, and expect pretty much everyone in this thread will as well.
I think that the new w.x.y.z verioning added with 2.6.11 is a totally good direction as well, since the 2.6.11.x updates are braindead security-only fixes, not even necessitating a "make oldconfig" before building. Very nice! It could be argued that the major version number is now almost completely pointless, but whatever:)
Depends on the bitrate. If you record at a decent bitrate (160kbps MP4, ~190kbps VBR MP3), you'll drain the battery faster because the disk has to be accessed more often... I think the buffer is about 5MB though i could be wrong.
Certainly it won't skip very often if you're using "CD-quality WMA" (64kbps - har har... WMA isn't CD quality at ANY bitrate).
Oh I agree that DRM is fine for most people, but for me its not, and the question on this thread is what it will take for ME to switch.
I want to be able to play back the files using open source software, and transcode at whim to different formats, essentially. Both of these desires are, AFAIK, at odds with ANY sort of DRM, and that's why I'll continue purchasing CDs.
or you reformat your PC or buy a new one, or you buy a new portable which doesn't play MP4, or you decide to transcode to a different format later on.
I have no problem with copyrights on music like most of the people here... but I personally purchase CDs and then promptly rip them to lossless format (FLAC), then transcode to the current portable format de jour (MP3 still right now).
These MP3s i stream to work through my website, burn to CDs for play in my car, upload to my nomad jukebox, and play on my Linux and Windows machines.
Now contrast that with what I could do using a DRM'd format such as itunes MP4, WMA, or DVD-audio.
wow, that was insightful... care to elaborate? I was thinking the same thing as the grandparent... Java is one of the few languages which make multithreading relatively painless, and the abstraction therein would be very complimentary to this type of technology. For Sun, this makes sense!
Uhm, cause then you have to do your taxes with turbocash, do them by hand, compare the two, fix software bugs, then submit. This appears to be about the slowest possible way to do your taxes.
I'm seriously considering finishing all my sentences/expressions/statements with an insult. Gonna see how many friends I have after a week or two of that.
Example: "I actually prefer aged cheddar to marble. Fuckstick."
Like, holy crap dude! Are you familiar with the term "antisocial"? Have you seen Napoleon Dynamite? "Geez, idiot!"
You are reminded to install a virus scanner automatically in SP2.
You are prompted every time you download stupid shit, that downloading said shit is dangerous.... but yes you are right about one thing... configuring sendmail is tough.
First of all, what is your measure of success? Most powerful militarily? Sure. Largest economy? Technically Europe's is larger, and more left-wing. Standard of Living? Many industrialized countries have you beat there.
Second of all, the USSR and China are not poster children for socialist societies. They are/were dictatorships. A Better comparison would be Sweden, and they have the US beat in standard of living, life expectancy, crime rates, poverty levels and so forth. Oh, and they are socialist as all hell.
I can't believe you people are buying that line about Kerry being a flip-flopper. Kerry changed his mind on Iraq because he was MISINFORMED BY THE ADMINISTRATION as to why war was necessary. Bush may have been as well, but even now he stubornly refused to admit he was wrong!
Being able to change viewpoints based on given evidence is an excellent characteristic of a critical thinker, something Bush, as a fundamentalist, will never be.
good point - the zlib exploit isn't to my knowledge even mentioned on the zlib page - its up to the individual software vendors who statically link to their library to fix. Hell, they didn't even release a fixed version - the latest zlib available still has the problem! No biggie though, right; anyone using zlib is responsible for patching their own applications. Why should Microsoft, who has comparatively been way MORE responsible, be blamed for this one??
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The headline suggests IE is only going to have basic tabs because they think we can't handle them. The reality is that the beta will have basic tabs because they aren't complete, and that they fully agree that leaving tabs out because "people will be confused" was a mistake in IE6.
Man, they just can't win. Should they leave the feature out and be criticised for non-conformance, or include it and be criticised for lack of innovation?
Ah the old Slashdot spin machine... actually if you read the IE Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx the developers are clear that they made the WRONG decision in avoiding tabs the first time, and the tabs will be basic only at the time of beta, but they will be adding more features afterwards.
What goes on in the real world? Are you serious? How much proper OO code exists out there in C++, in use by industry? C++ is a joke. Not that you can't write good code if you choose a sane subset of its features, but few do that, instead writing glorified C using C++ syntax. QT is an excellent example, though - I agree.
how about reading the article before trashing on Stallman? He says very clearly that they WON'T fork OOo development and instead focus on improving GCC's java front-end, and making sure that OOo works with it.
The concern is/was that a free software solution can't have a non-free dependency (Sun JRE). He's making sure that doesn't happen. No one cares that it is written in Java per se.
Also, I'd like to add that the main 3 GNU toolchain packages, GCC, GLIBC and Binutils, are all (AFAIK) hosted and funded by Redhat.
Actually that's an EXCELLENT point... by your rationale we should actually stop calling it OS-X and just call it Mach, since the kernel apparenlty gets to name the whole OS. Oh wait, you say that the rest of the OS took a lot of hard work to develop? Maybe calling Linux just plain GNU would make more sense.
If you want to charge for your QT-based software, you have to pay for a QT license. If you want to release free QT software you don't have to pay for anything. Sounds totally fair to me... you want something for nothing?
The default taskbar looks nothing like his... he has a quicklaunch filling almost the entire thing.
And how is KDE anything except consistent?? Practically everything is a part of the core KDE packages, and they're very well integrated. Gnome pales in comparison!
As a canadian who has hated just about every artist this place has ever produced, I agree. The Arcade Fire hauls serious ass, and will be the Next Big Thing if i have any say in the matter.
well, except that kernel32 is not monolithic and doesn't contain device drivers. But I agree with your sentiment, and expect pretty much everyone in this thread will as well.
:)
I think that the new w.x.y.z verioning added with 2.6.11 is a totally good direction as well, since the 2.6.11.x updates are braindead security-only fixes, not even necessitating a "make oldconfig" before building. Very nice! It could be argued that the major version number is now almost completely pointless, but whatever
haha, i was totally thinking the same thing :)
Depends on the bitrate. If you record at a decent bitrate (160kbps MP4, ~190kbps VBR MP3), you'll drain the battery faster because the disk has to be accessed more often... I think the buffer is about 5MB though i could be wrong.
Certainly it won't skip very often if you're using "CD-quality WMA" (64kbps - har har... WMA isn't CD quality at ANY bitrate).
Oh I agree that DRM is fine for most people, but for me its not, and the question on this thread is what it will take for ME to switch.
I want to be able to play back the files using open source software, and transcode at whim to different formats, essentially. Both of these desires are, AFAIK, at odds with ANY sort of DRM, and that's why I'll continue purchasing CDs.
or you reformat your PC or buy a new one, or you buy a new portable which doesn't play MP4, or you decide to transcode to a different format later on.
I have no problem with copyrights on music like most of the people here... but I personally purchase CDs and then promptly rip them to lossless format (FLAC), then transcode to the current portable format de jour (MP3 still right now).
These MP3s i stream to work through my website, burn to CDs for play in my car, upload to my nomad jukebox, and play on my Linux and Windows machines.
Now contrast that with what I could do using a DRM'd format such as itunes MP4, WMA, or DVD-audio.
Exactly.
wow, that was insightful... care to elaborate? I was thinking the same thing as the grandparent... Java is one of the few languages which make multithreading relatively painless, and the abstraction therein would be very complimentary to this type of technology. For Sun, this makes sense!
Uhm, cause then you have to do your taxes with turbocash, do them by hand, compare the two, fix software bugs, then submit. This appears to be about the slowest possible way to do your taxes.
How does "many languages -> bytecode -> many machines" run faster than "one language -> bytecode -> many machines?
Both in their current forms are JIT compiled, and "should" give similar performance.
I'm seriously considering finishing all my sentences/expressions/statements with an insult. Gonna see how many friends I have after a week or two of that.
Example:
"I actually prefer aged cheddar to marble. Fuckstick."
Like, holy crap dude! Are you familiar with the term "antisocial"? Have you seen Napoleon Dynamite? "Geez, idiot!"
yeah, what the fuck?
Firewall is automatically on in SP2.
... but yes you are right about one thing... configuring sendmail is tough.
Autoupdate is automatically on in SP2.
You are reminded to install a virus scanner automatically in SP2.
You are prompted every time you download stupid shit, that downloading said shit is dangerous.
First of all, what is your measure of success? Most powerful militarily? Sure. Largest economy? Technically Europe's is larger, and more left-wing. Standard of Living? Many industrialized countries have you beat there.
Second of all, the USSR and China are not poster children for socialist societies. They are/were dictatorships. A Better comparison would be Sweden, and they have the US beat in standard of living, life expectancy, crime rates, poverty levels and so forth. Oh, and they are socialist as all hell.
yeah, on this issue at least he did. Wish he'd been louder about WHY he was wrong... could have turned the #1 criticism into a plus.
I can't believe you people are buying that line about Kerry being a flip-flopper. Kerry changed his mind on Iraq because he was MISINFORMED BY THE ADMINISTRATION as to why war was necessary. Bush may have been as well, but even now he stubornly refused to admit he was wrong!
Being able to change viewpoints based on given evidence is an excellent characteristic of a critical thinker, something Bush, as a fundamentalist, will never be.
good point - the zlib exploit isn't to my knowledge even mentioned on the zlib page - its up to the individual software vendors who statically link to their library to fix. Hell, they didn't even release a fixed version - the latest zlib available still has the problem! No biggie though, right; anyone using zlib is responsible for patching their own applications. Why should Microsoft, who has comparatively been way MORE responsible, be blamed for this one??