Hm... Han Solo shots (first) Jar-Jar on every episode, maybe?
Re:Gnome guys still unresponsive I see.
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Users be damned, they're going to do whatever the hell they want.
Actually, the problem appeared when the menu specification appeared on freedesktop.org. They had to change their way to do menus to the new specification and, due the timed released, there wasn't time to do the menu editor. That came on two releases, I believe: the first when the specification came in and the next, where all applications on the desktop released where reviewed to include their ".desktop" files (the ones used on menus).
Also, the menu specification allows applications to register themselves on the menus. New applications, this way, should have zero menu edits to appear. Since the menu specification came in, I never had to edit the menus, to be honest.
Last I checked, 'evil Bill Gates' does give quite a bit of money away to the poor.
Hm... What if he give money to charity EXACTLY to reduce his debt with the IRS? I'm not saying that he is evil in any case, I'm just wondering his reason to do so...
Anyway, as I pointed, Jobs is my personal hero. He gave me another point of view, to not give up when things look like you are inside a well full of shit. Maybe not a thousand lives were saved (as probably would happen with a "a few billions given to charity"), but it was MY life saved.
And, as far as I know, Gates only does so much charity to avoid an outrageous bill on IRS -- not that he should stop doing it, it is just that isn't something from someone that can be called hero (and I believe Jobs does the same but, as I put before, he saved my life, without wasting a single penny).
I know this can sound weird, but Jobs is my hero. Not because what he did for all the people, but because something he said.
I was on my deepest depression crisis ever and I was already planning my suicide. I was sure that day would be my last day when I came across his speech at Stanford University. And his words made me rethink everything I was going through at that moment, and gave me enough strength to give up the plan and keep going.
So yeah, Jobs is my personal hero. No matter how great amount of money Gates throw at projects, Jobs is the guy who said the right thing at the right moment.
[And I tried to send him my story, but I'm almost sure he would never see it]
Re:KDE might offer a variety of features but...
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You are right: KDE really lets you choose whatever you want to do with anything. The problem is: why the default behavior is to display every option? Why not take a default one (say, play audio CD) and there let the user choose what to do? AFAIR, that was the default behavior of GNOME a few releases ago: it opened the CD player, where you could select "Rip CD" from a menu.
If the idea is display every open, take a look at the Nautilus dialog when you put a black CD on your CD writer: it asks if you want to write an audio CD, a photo CD or a data CD (and there is a "cancel" too). You only get one Window, not three asking what to do.
Re:My issue with Gnome is....
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Re:KDE more configurable ?
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No no no. "Menu bar", not launch bar. On a menu bar, the application menu goes to the top bar of the screen.
GNOME doesn't have it and, right now, doesn't have support for something like that. The current menu objects can't be placed out of the current application (they are not bonoboficated or something like that).
Also, I recall some talks of some developers saying that the menu bar at top could confuse users who use "focus follow mouse". As I use this focus model, I must agree. Of course, YMMV.:)
Or the people using AMD really thought it was a operating system problem. Or even if it was really a processor problem.
Re:Make a deal with the devil...
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Gave Linux XFS, arguably its fastest and most robust filesystem to date.
Sorry, you are wrong. XFS is robust ON SGI machines, and nothing else.
XFS uses a direct memory-to-disk scheme. This makes it fast, but not robust on common x86 machines. On these machines, the first thing to go out on a power failure is the memory and later the harddisks. So, on power failure garbage will be written to the disk. On SGI machines, they added little capacitors to the memory, so it will survive more than the harddisk (and write will be correct).
Part of your impression is that you weren't in the International Forum of Free Software, which the author (and myself) were.
ESR said some very stupid things in his talk and dodge every fucking question that put his ideas on a corner with rage and angry instead of trying to make people understand his points of view. It was the most impressive display of naiveness I ever saw. Even Stallman, in the first forum, didn't say things so naive.
To me, he thinks he is so awesome that he sould be emperor of all open source projects...
And is it just me, or have the Klingons gone from glorious warriors to whimps??
Did the Klingons turn to whimps or the humans turn to warriors?
I may be wrong here, but the Enterprise in the Kirk era was an exploration ship. In Picard era, it was an exploration ship, a diplomatic ship and, later, a warship. Not to mention that war against the dominion, which required more fire-power.
Also, during the DS9, you could see the Klingon Empire cracking down due politics. The internal wars in the empire where stronger than the wars the klingons were fighting. A weak internal power made the empire weak.
It is really sad when someone say "you are jumping into conclusions" and find explanations to the original complain jumping into conclusions...
Nowhere is said that Darth Vader/Anakin gets weaker losing limbs. What is the midichlorian just jumped from the limbs to his head? He would be strong anyway. But I would be jumping into conclusions, don't I?
Or simply use Synaptic, the front-end to apt-get developed by Conectiva.
I have a friend that tryed almost every distro in the world (well, the mainstream ones, anyway), even FreeBSD. Finally, I gave him an Ubuntu CD and he said Synaptic was what he has being looking for ages. And he a long time Windows user and have a living writing Windows applications.
I don't want to bash RedHat on it, but I already have it: Ubuntu Hoary starts GDM before some stuff (I could see the startup of ACPId after the "starting GDM" message and before the GDM really appeared).
One point to them is that they were the first trying such things, IIRC.
Slashdot Mirror
Can we please have a 6 month moratorium on NOT posting Dvorak's trolls on the front page of slashdot?
Why? People here started RTFA?
Or they could retell the story and call it "Revenge of the Nerds Begins".
1. Mr. Gates is getting old and sad (look at the picture).
I really like the last photo. It looks like he broke the LCD screen from a notebook (on the right side) and has that "oops, did I break it?" look.
Hm... Han Solo shots (first) Jar-Jar on every episode, maybe?
Users be damned, they're going to do whatever the hell they want.
Actually, the problem appeared when the menu specification appeared on freedesktop.org. They had to change their way to do menus to the new specification and, due the timed released, there wasn't time to do the menu editor. That came on two releases, I believe: the first when the specification came in and the next, where all applications on the desktop released where reviewed to include their ".desktop" files (the ones used on menus).
Also, the menu specification allows applications to register themselves on the menus. New applications, this way, should have zero menu edits to appear. Since the menu specification came in, I never had to edit the menus, to be honest.
honestly think about tron without the image of the tron guy coming to mind?
I could, just before clicking the link. Thanks for nothing.
Far from it, I was deeply moved by Steve's speech, *and* your experience, and I thank you for sharing it.
:)
Ok, sorry thinking is was sarcastic. My sarcasm detector looks broken for some time already.
[And I'm trying to post it for the THIRD time before the thread is closed...]
Last I checked, 'evil Bill Gates' does give quite a bit of money away to the poor.
Hm... What if he give money to charity EXACTLY to reduce his debt with the IRS? I'm not saying that he is evil in any case, I'm just wondering his reason to do so...
Does it run Linux?
I think you were trying to be sarcastic, right?
Anyway, as I pointed, Jobs is my personal hero. He gave me another point of view, to not give up when things look like you are inside a well full of shit. Maybe not a thousand lives were saved (as probably would happen with a "a few billions given to charity"), but it was MY life saved.
And, as far as I know, Gates only does so much charity to avoid an outrageous bill on IRS -- not that he should stop doing it, it is just that isn't something from someone that can be called hero (and I believe Jobs does the same but, as I put before, he saved my life, without wasting a single penny).
I know this can sound weird, but Jobs is my hero. Not because what he did for all the people, but because something he said.
I was on my deepest depression crisis ever and I was already planning my suicide. I was sure that day would be my last day when I came across his speech at Stanford University. And his words made me rethink everything I was going through at that moment, and gave me enough strength to give up the plan and keep going.
So yeah, Jobs is my personal hero. No matter how great amount of money Gates throw at projects, Jobs is the guy who said the right thing at the right moment.
[And I tried to send him my story, but I'm almost sure he would never see it]
You are right: KDE really lets you choose whatever you want to do with anything. The problem is: why the default behavior is to display every option? Why not take a default one (say, play audio CD) and there let the user choose what to do? AFAIR, that was the default behavior of GNOME a few releases ago: it opened the CD player, where you could select "Rip CD" from a menu.
If the idea is display every open, take a look at the Nautilus dialog when you put a black CD on your CD writer: it asks if you want to write an audio CD, a photo CD or a data CD (and there is a "cancel" too). You only get one Window, not three asking what to do.
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No no no. "Menu bar", not launch bar. On a menu bar, the application menu goes to the top bar of the screen.
:)
GNOME doesn't have it and, right now, doesn't have support for something like that. The current menu objects can't be placed out of the current application (they are not bonoboficated or something like that).
Also, I recall some talks of some developers saying that the menu bar at top could confuse users who use "focus follow mouse". As I use this focus model, I must agree. Of course, YMMV.
This particular zero-day vuln is known since at least one week, and MS still hasn't distributed a fix.
I'm willing to give them the option that their code suck so much that fixing this would take more than a week.
Maybe not many people use Intel compilers?
Or the people using AMD really thought it was a operating system problem. Or even if it was really a processor problem.
Gave Linux XFS, arguably its fastest and most robust filesystem to date.
Sorry, you are wrong. XFS is robust ON SGI machines, and nothing else.
XFS uses a direct memory-to-disk scheme. This makes it fast, but not robust on common x86 machines. On these machines, the first thing to go out on a power failure is the memory and later the harddisks. So, on power failure garbage will be written to the disk. On SGI machines, they added little capacitors to the memory, so it will survive more than the harddisk (and write will be correct).
I learnt that on the FISL.
I certainly do not want to be held to what I said then and I certainly don't want to be held to what I say right now 5 years from now.
Welcome to life, where people will always try to find something you did in the past to put you in a bad situation.
And this will happen every day...
Part of your impression is that you weren't in the International Forum of Free Software, which the author (and myself) were.
ESR said some very stupid things in his talk and dodge every fucking question that put his ideas on a corner with rage and angry instead of trying to make people understand his points of view. It was the most impressive display of naiveness I ever saw. Even Stallman, in the first forum, didn't say things so naive.
To me, he thinks he is so awesome that he sould be emperor of all open source projects...
And is it just me, or have the Klingons gone from glorious warriors to whimps??
Did the Klingons turn to whimps or the humans turn to warriors?
I may be wrong here, but the Enterprise in the Kirk era was an exploration ship. In Picard era, it was an exploration ship, a diplomatic ship and, later, a warship. Not to mention that war against the dominion, which required more fire-power.
Also, during the DS9, you could see the Klingon Empire cracking down due politics. The internal wars in the empire where stronger than the wars the klingons were fighting. A weak internal power made the empire weak.
Damn, here I go looking like a geek AGAIN!
It is really sad when someone say "you are jumping into conclusions" and find explanations to the original complain jumping into conclusions...
Nowhere is said that Darth Vader/Anakin gets weaker losing limbs. What is the midichlorian just jumped from the limbs to his head? He would be strong anyway. But I would be jumping into conclusions, don't I?
Or simply use Synaptic, the front-end to apt-get developed by Conectiva.
I have a friend that tryed almost every distro in the world (well, the mainstream ones, anyway), even FreeBSD. Finally, I gave him an Ubuntu CD and he said Synaptic was what he has being looking for ages. And he a long time Windows user and have a living writing Windows applications.
I have always looked at MS as a big mean dog...you really don't want to mess with them, and you really really don't want to back them in a corner..
Yeah, that is said in TFA. But they also noted that some "big nice dogs" aren't running away from MS barks and decided to go to fight.
I don't want to bash RedHat on it, but I already have it: Ubuntu Hoary starts GDM before some stuff (I could see the startup of ACPId after the "starting GDM" message and before the GDM really appeared).
One point to them is that they were the first trying such things, IIRC.
Actually, I think they (BitMover) are upset because there is no NDA in "telnet". So Tridge could check their commands and still work on another VCS.