Even assuming your windows are that big, your code gives you 66 frames per second, while 30 are needed for smooth animation. And nobody said those intermediate frames while dragging a window have to be full quality and resolution. Your point?
With all major OSes - Windows, MacOSX and Linux - you are mostly using drivers that come from the vendor. Only MacOSX lets you download and install a binary driver from an unrelated 3rd party and not worry about updating it after every kernel security patch.
Credit card today is a dumb piece of plastic with no security to speak off. When credit card companies come up with a decent authentication scheme and implement it in ALL locations, they can pass the responsibility for fraud to vendors.
Especially with newfangled things like Aero and XGL becoming the norm. Even basic tasks like moving windows around perform much, much better with acceleration.
Sounds like bad coding to me. Despite fancy appearance, windows are still 2D and the notion that a Core Duo can not blend a megapixel of data with its background seems preposterous.
While I hate Windows, I actually wish this problem was not so easy for Microsoft to solve. Since they are signing all drivers, they could just determine device's PCI/USB/etc signature and fetch the driver from their website. The problem is that now all the hardware in the world can only be created with Microsoft's approval, which is way too much control for a single company.
All 9/11 hijackers had a proper ID with no prior criminal record. I don't see how biometric ID would have solved anything besides making airport security more confident in letting them through. Known terrorists like Bin Laden would rather stay in their air conditioned caves and let grunts do all the work.
Maybe they shouldn't be so quick to disable or even interrupt service to stolen laptops. Even in the wrong hands, these laptops are not that useful for anything besides learning. Who knows how children of the rebels would be transformed by learning to program Linux.
The whole point of copyright is that your work becomes public domain in exchange for a short (7-14 years originally) period when you are granted a privilege of its exclusive distribution. The notions that consumers should accept unnatural restrictions for their lifetime simply for the privilege of buying your stuff for whatever price you set is ridiculous and against our tradition of not having privileged aristocracy. Everyone should feel free to simply ignore copyrights and patents until some balance between rights of all people is restored.
You are always personally responsible for what you do. If you think policies of the organization you are working for are immoral, you can always switch jobs to another company, or at least a project that you don't find offensive. You can also get angry users in touch with the person responsible for the policies. Conversely, if you stick around and protect your superiors, you deserve to be exposed to feedback of people who feel you are screwing them for money (your salary).
If everyone tries their best to take responsibility, web filtering will be eventually run by people who are either lacking moral compass or are not capable enough to find another job. As a result, they will hurt the company's business by their incompetence or actively embezzle funds or otherwise damage their employer. As the end result, the company would either give up on filtering, or become less competitive and give way to other businesses with more reasonable treatment of employees.
Stop worrying about others, the problem is yourself. Rather than learning to use KDE, you are going to tweak it to be just like your minefield Y2K box. This will not make you as productive as you think, because you will not be utilizing any user interface features that were thought of after year 2000. Besides, most of computer use is thinking and using application specific functionality, not switching between windows. You will have to deal with applications that are written with default configuration in mind and are not usable under your customizations. And worst of all, you will stay up all night trying to figure out how to put keyboard of hotel's computer into Dvorak mode to finish a 5 page document that you suddenly need to write.
Customization is like operator overloading. It's sleek and seemingly makes one more productive, but after a while it gets tiring to explain to yourself and others exactly what it does. Dozens of operating systems and thousands of computers used later, I stopped even bothering to copy my.emacs file. It's easier to type Esc X query-replace-regexp than hit Ctrl-r r and watch it trying to do incremental search backward for r, then find out how to transfer a file through that site's firewall.
I read description of the patches, and I don't want a window system with configurable right, middle OR double clicks on a title bar. If Linux ever becomes popular, it would be conceivable for a user to use someone else's machine, or expect instructions in an introductory book to work. He will then end up closing an important spreadsheet while trying to maximize it. Besides, window title bar is not the most critical or complex part of UI. I would rather gnome and kde teams focus on developing killer controls and good UI design tools. I DON'T want my window system's control panel to look like Linus'es make xconfig.
I imagined a beowulf cluster of those, nekked and petrified. Then I got ashamed of myself for rehashing the old meme and dumped hot grits in my pants. As I was convulsing on the ground, there was only one thought left in my mind:
If you have been using 1st generation CD burners, 1st generation LCD TVs or 1st version of operating systems, you can easily see that such things are unavoidable. Lab testing is done for at most a couple of month and can not predict what kind of problems will develop after a year or two of use.
Come on, there are lots of Russians sunbathing on the beach in summer without being bothered by mosquitos or collecting berries in the forest in t-shirts and shorts. Here in California, you could get bitten by a rattlesnake, contract Lyme disease, get attacked by a mountain lion, or break a leg while skiing. Never keeps anyone home. Just get whatever shots you need and move on with life.
I love invisible and inconsistent user interfaces. So, in one program I am supposed to press a keyboard modifier key to bring up a UI control I don't know is there. In another one, a particular functionality is only available through Ctrl-Click or a keyboard shortcut. In yet another one, being discussed here, none of those options work and I get to deal with a row of shifting icons.
Microsoft replaced a hundred menu items with a dozen toolbar buttons. Granted, buttons change with context, but on the other hand, 12 100 and there is no way to see all the program's functionality in one place. They should have just kept a menu bar, then it would be a clever innovation. In IE7, which uses a similar trick, there is no easy way to open a local file rather than an HTTP URL without re-enabling the menu, which is not an option in Office. In Media Player, its totally baffling that the default screen has a huge visualizer, but they couldn't find place for a little menu bar.
absolutely nothing to do (except drinking) for most people
What is that exactly that you want to do that you think is there in the rest of the world? Russia has big problems, like military conscripts being sold for prostitution, but people have more gatherings with friends/nature trips/cultural events than in US.
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Some people apparently have issues with (how hard can it be)
Very hard, apparently.
movingmap is not a device, at most it would be a UNIX domain socket if it's implemented as a daemon.
Even assuming your windows are that big, your code gives you 66 frames per second, while 30 are needed for smooth animation. And nobody said those intermediate frames while dragging a window have to be full quality and resolution. Your point?
With all major OSes - Windows, MacOSX and Linux - you are mostly using drivers that come from the vendor. Only MacOSX lets you download and install a binary driver from an unrelated 3rd party and not worry about updating it after every kernel security patch.
Credit card today is a dumb piece of plastic with no security to speak off. When credit card companies come up with a decent authentication scheme and implement it in ALL locations, they can pass the responsibility for fraud to vendors.
Well, in this case you just stop taking the fatty acid supplements and go back to your old self.
Welcome to PHS (projected hypochondria syndrome) - finding symptoms of everything you read about in your eccentric relative.
Damn fucking right! Tourette's is a fucking crippling disorder that makes you appear like a dick and shit in public.
Especially with newfangled things like Aero and XGL becoming the norm. Even basic tasks like moving windows around perform much, much better with acceleration.
Sounds like bad coding to me. Despite fancy appearance, windows are still 2D and the notion that a Core Duo can not blend a megapixel of data with its background seems preposterous.
While I hate Windows, I actually wish this problem was not so easy for Microsoft to solve. Since they are signing all drivers, they could just determine device's PCI/USB/etc signature and fetch the driver from their website. The problem is that now all the hardware in the world can only be created with Microsoft's approval, which is way too much control for a single company.
All 9/11 hijackers had a proper ID with no prior criminal record. I don't see how biometric ID would have solved anything besides making airport security more confident in letting them through. Known terrorists like Bin Laden would rather stay in their air conditioned caves and let grunts do all the work.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
-- Marie Curie
Maybe they shouldn't be so quick to disable or even interrupt service to stolen laptops. Even in the wrong hands, these laptops are not that useful for anything besides learning. Who knows how children of the rebels would be transformed by learning to program Linux.
The whole point of copyright is that your work becomes public domain in exchange for a short (7-14 years originally) period when you are granted a privilege of its exclusive distribution. The notions that consumers should accept unnatural restrictions for their lifetime simply for the privilege of buying your stuff for whatever price you set is ridiculous and against our tradition of not having privileged aristocracy. Everyone should feel free to simply ignore copyrights and patents until some balance between rights of all people is restored.
You are always personally responsible for what you do. If you think policies of the organization you are working for are immoral, you can always switch jobs to another company, or at least a project that you don't find offensive. You can also get angry users in touch with the person responsible for the policies. Conversely, if you stick around and protect your superiors, you deserve to be exposed to feedback of people who feel you are screwing them for money (your salary).
If everyone tries their best to take responsibility, web filtering will be eventually run by people who are either lacking moral compass or are not capable enough to find another job. As a result, they will hurt the company's business by their incompetence or actively embezzle funds or otherwise damage their employer. As the end result, the company would either give up on filtering, or become less competitive and give way to other businesses with more reasonable treatment of employees.
Stop worrying about others, the problem is yourself. Rather than learning to use KDE, you are going to tweak it to be just like your minefield Y2K box. This will not make you as productive as you think, because you will not be utilizing any user interface features that were thought of after year 2000. Besides, most of computer use is thinking and using application specific functionality, not switching between windows. You will have to deal with applications that are written with default configuration in mind and are not usable under your customizations. And worst of all, you will stay up all night trying to figure out how to put keyboard of hotel's computer into Dvorak mode to finish a 5 page document that you suddenly need to write.
.emacs file. It's easier to type Esc X query-replace-regexp than hit Ctrl-r r and watch it trying to do incremental search backward for r, then find out how to transfer a file through that site's firewall.
Customization is like operator overloading. It's sleek and seemingly makes one more productive, but after a while it gets tiring to explain to yourself and others exactly what it does. Dozens of operating systems and thousands of computers used later, I stopped even bothering to copy my
I read description of the patches, and I don't want a window system with configurable right, middle OR double clicks on a title bar. If Linux ever becomes popular, it would be conceivable for a user to use someone else's machine, or expect instructions in an introductory book to work. He will then end up closing an important spreadsheet while trying to maximize it. Besides, window title bar is not the most critical or complex part of UI. I would rather gnome and kde teams focus on developing killer controls and good UI design tools. I DON'T want my window system's control panel to look like Linus'es make xconfig.
I imagined a beowulf cluster of those, nekked and petrified. Then I got ashamed of myself for rehashing the old meme and dumped hot grits in my pants. As I was convulsing on the ground, there was only one thought left in my mind:
"Does it run Linux?"
If you have been using 1st generation CD burners, 1st generation LCD TVs or 1st version of operating systems, you can easily see that such things are unavoidable. Lab testing is done for at most a couple of month and can not predict what kind of problems will develop after a year or two of use.
Come on, there are lots of Russians sunbathing on the beach in summer without being bothered by mosquitos or collecting berries in the forest in t-shirts and shorts. Here in California, you could get bitten by a rattlesnake, contract Lyme disease, get attacked by a mountain lion, or break a leg while skiing. Never keeps anyone home. Just get whatever shots you need and move on with life.
I love invisible and inconsistent user interfaces. So, in one program I am supposed to press a keyboard modifier key to bring up a UI control I don't know is there. In another one, a particular functionality is only available through Ctrl-Click or a keyboard shortcut. In yet another one, being discussed here, none of those options work and I get to deal with a row of shifting icons.
Microsoft replaced a hundred menu items with a dozen toolbar buttons. Granted, buttons change with context, but on the other hand, 12 100 and there is no way to see all the program's functionality in one place. They should have just kept a menu bar, then it would be a clever innovation. In IE7, which uses a similar trick, there is no easy way to open a local file rather than an HTTP URL without re-enabling the menu, which is not an option in Office. In Media Player, its totally baffling that the default screen has a huge visualizer, but they couldn't find place for a little menu bar.
absolutely nothing to do (except drinking) for most people
What is that exactly that you want to do that you think is there in the rest of the world? Russia has big problems, like military conscripts being sold for prostitution, but people have more gatherings with friends/nature trips/cultural events than in US.
I bought one the other day. It was called a measuring cup.