the bacterial enzyme Cre recombinase, which exchanges any two pieces of DNA flanked on either end by a certain pattern of nucleotides (DNA subunits) So this is basically sed for DNA? This seems like awesome:O
So they should say Windows, Mac and Linux? Or should that be Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD? Or Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and my toy OS that I wrote in CS class?
They should say "all platforms which can play videos of [open format X]. If there are no players for your platform, here are the format specs so you can make one"
Then buying a CD doesn't work -- when you buy a CD, you own a lump of plastic
I want it to be uncompressed
Do you mean uncompressed or lossless? Either way, it's not something specific to CDs
un-DRMed
CDs are starting to implement DRM now
and I don't want to have to pay for it all again should my MP3 player die, or my hard disk bite the big one
And what happens when your CDs get scratched?
CDs are great. They play everywhere. There's a CD player in my car.
Unless you have a DRM'ed CD
My car does not have an MP3 player that I can "sync" with my music library, nor does it have a way to connect my MP3 player to my Car's audio system.
That's your own choice, you can get players that play both sources if you want
The notion that CDs are becoming obsolete is absurd.
Just because you are using something now does not mean that everyone else will be using it in the future~
Besides, when you download, you don't get anything PHYSICAL
For people who are into that, good point
And finally, being forced to buy the whole CD to get a single song I liked has opened up my eyes and my tastes to lots of music I never, ever, would have heard on the radio. Generally my favorite tracks are not the singles.
You can buy whole albums on MP3 too, if you really think that it's a good idea; personally, I prefer to have the choice
nVidia really has little reason not to open their source code to the public, unless they are doing something illegal or extremely unethical in their drivers.
Which category does "not holding copyright for all the code" come under? (I'm suggesting that they've licenced third party stuff, not stolen it)
Amen to that; saying that an SCM is a "software configuration manager", when you are using it to manage source code (and not software configuration), has always struck me as incredibly silly~
It would be great to have a single application open that ran at start-up that said: "The following applications have updates available:" and then lists the applications, and two buttons "Update all" and "Advanced" which would allow you to see details about the updates and select just the ones you want.
I take it you haven't tried Ubuntu in the past few years?
I'm looking for a laptop which runs linux and has wifi / ethernet (all my work is done over SSH or VNC), and is as cheap as possible once those requirements are met -- both these seem great, but can I buy either yet? Even at an inflated price to subsidise educational discounts?
none of the people who excel at any of the above tasks have ever once called me an idiot
But how often do you do those things in everyday life? If you've never needed to touch an engine, and you don't know how to rebuild one, that's fine; if you work with computers every day and you don't know what one is, that's another matter:P
Also, I bet you *could* tell the difference between the engine and the car, which is more car expertise than many people I know have computer expertise...
I you show me a car, I can't tell you the make/model, and if you give me a model, I can't tell use the manufacturer in most cases. [Ignorance does not make an idiot]
I know just about as much about cars as you do, but if someone showed me a car and asked the make / model, I'd walk to the front and read the badge. *That's* the difference between someone who is an ignorant idiot, and someone who is ignorant but smart:)
All I want is a replacement for my increasingly RAM-intensive browser. It's not good enough to fulfill that requirement, and then also be a bunch of other unwanted things.
If the extras are unnoticable, then what's the problem? Avoiding a program simply because it has an extra capability (which doesn't have any negative effect on the main one) seems a really dumb idea:-/ It's like refusing to eat good food, since as well as tasting nice, it keeps you healthy, and you want food which *only* tastes nice...
We're considering jumping ship because of a few measly features like a spell-checker. What makes you people think we would want an entire "suite" of these things instead?
Do you object to features, or do you object to bloat? While you may say that anything you don't use personally is bloat, I'd think it forgivable on the condition that the extras don't get in the way of the features I do use (as is the case).
If you're really that desperate for a browser which has the features that you personally want, and no features that you don't personally want, I think you'll have to make your own:-P As it is, opera has all the features I personally want, and the features I don't personally want are practically not there, so I consider it close enough to my ideal~
we need many eyes reviewing in the interest of the public, not many eyes reviewing in the sole interest of the company.
I'd rather have many company eyes actually looking at code than many public eyes ranting on slashdot about how everyone else looks at the code, none of them *actually* doing it:-/
Seriously, quick show of e-hands. Who here has picked up some random open source project and done a code audit just because they could? And who here has done code auditing for an internal project because the company paid them?
Opera has a fucking mail client built in. If that's not feature bloat, then I don't know what is.
I agree that you don't know what is:)
a) It's not feature bloat -- a mail client is a perfectly sensible thing to include in an internet app suite (note: opera is comparable in purpose to seamonkey, not firefox)
b) It's not code bloat -- the entire opera suite (browser, mail, irc, bittorrent, feed reader, and god knows what else) is smaller and faster than a single component from mozilla (firefox, the browser)
I just had the freakiest experience with Opera, and I wonder if anyone here can explain: As some of you may know, in addition to regular back and forward buttons, opera also has a "go where I want" button. I had suspected that it worked by simply finding the end digit in the URL and adding one, ie if you're viewing 42.jpg and hit "go where I want" you go to 43.jpg. But I've just had it figure out that the image after "07.jpg" is "chapter2-01.jpg".
Now, as far as copy protection goes, I would much rather have something check the internet once in a while than have me pull out the CD/DVD every time I want to play
Personally, I'd like a choice of either. Though if I had to have one or the other, I'd go with pulling out the DVD -- that still works when I'm on a firewalled network (ie, at universities, where I am now).
Having just spent $40 on half life 2 myself, and finding myself unable to play it, I can guarantee that I'm not paying for any more of valve's products until they make steam optional:P
You can save your specious arguments for an audience that will buy them. We don't have to review the source of all the programs we use to gain the "transparency" benefit of Open Source or Free Software. The idea is "many eyes", not "my eyes".
Seeing as most people who look at firefox's source code go blind soon after, I'm not buying this.
Yes, hundreds of thousands of people can in theory look at the source; but then all of them think that someone else will do it, and nobody actually *does*. (Not counting full time mozilla employees, since MS has full time IE employees, and they don't count towards the "many eyes" effect)
I don't see any reason why all of those things are integrated and not seperate addons
Most of those things are tiny amounts of code for generally useful functionality.
For finding actual performance bottlenecks, I'd stop speculating about removing random features which I don't personally use, and I'd start running an actual profiler on it so I knew exactly how much time was being spent doing what:P
But who led the country into a state of constant paranoia? Who took terrorism (which kills fewer people per year than starvation does per day), and made it the #1 most feared thing ever?
Slashdot Mirror
They should say "all platforms which can play videos of [open format X]. If there are no players for your platform, here are the format specs so you can make one"
Then buying a CD doesn't work -- when you buy a CD, you own a lump of plastic
Do you mean uncompressed or lossless? Either way, it's not something specific to CDs
CDs are starting to implement DRM now
And what happens when your CDs get scratched?
Unless you have a DRM'ed CD
That's your own choice, you can get players that play both sources if you want
Just because you are using something now does not mean that everyone else will be using it in the future~
For people who are into that, good point
You can buy whole albums on MP3 too, if you really think that it's a good idea; personally, I prefer to have the choice
Which category does "not holding copyright for all the code" come under? (I'm suggesting that they've licenced third party stuff, not stolen it)
In vim, Ctrl-V for block select, Delete (or x) to snip it out. Also you can then paste a block as a block elsewhere~
You mean stability and performance problems are features?
Amen to that; saying that an SCM is a "software configuration manager", when you are using it to manage source code (and not software configuration), has always struck me as incredibly silly~
I take it you haven't tried Ubuntu in the past few years?
I'm looking for a laptop which runs linux and has wifi / ethernet (all my work is done over SSH or VNC), and is as cheap as possible once those requirements are met -- both these seem great, but can I buy either yet? Even at an inflated price to subsidise educational discounts?
But how often do you do those things in everyday life? If you've never needed to touch an engine, and you don't know how to rebuild one, that's fine; if you work with computers every day and you don't know what one is, that's another matter :P
Also, I bet you *could* tell the difference between the engine and the car, which is more car expertise than many people I know have computer expertise...
I know just about as much about cars as you do, but if someone showed me a car and asked the make / model, I'd walk to the front and read the badge. *That's* the difference between someone who is an ignorant idiot, and someone who is ignorant but smart :)
Having worked with some, I can tell you they are :)
(More accurately, some are, and some aren't, but vocal minorities get heard over everyone else, just like every other field :P)
If the extras are unnoticable, then what's the problem? Avoiding a program simply because it has an extra capability (which doesn't have any negative effect on the main one) seems a really dumb idea :-/ It's like refusing to eat good food, since as well as tasting nice, it keeps you healthy, and you want food which *only* tastes nice...
Do you object to features, or do you object to bloat? While you may say that anything you don't use personally is bloat, I'd think it forgivable on the condition that the extras don't get in the way of the features I do use (as is the case).
If you're really that desperate for a browser which has the features that you personally want, and no features that you don't personally want, I think you'll have to make your own :-P As it is, opera has all the features I personally want, and the features I don't personally want are practically not there, so I consider it close enough to my ideal~
Who said it did?
England lost in a war between America and Russia o_O?
Fairness is for dirty commies; in America, the law comes from capitalism :)
How on earth did I read that as "they should just frog blast the vent core" o_O?
I'd rather have many company eyes actually looking at code than many public eyes ranting on slashdot about how everyone else looks at the code, none of them *actually* doing it :-/
Seriously, quick show of e-hands. Who here has picked up some random open source project and done a code audit just because they could? And who here has done code auditing for an internal project because the company paid them?
I agree that you don't know what is :)
a) It's not feature bloat -- a mail client is a perfectly sensible thing to include in an internet app suite (note: opera is comparable in purpose to seamonkey, not firefox)
b) It's not code bloat -- the entire opera suite (browser, mail, irc, bittorrent, feed reader, and god knows what else) is smaller and faster than a single component from mozilla (firefox, the browser)
I just had the freakiest experience with Opera, and I wonder if anyone here can explain: As some of you may know, in addition to regular back and forward buttons, opera also has a "go where I want" button. I had suspected that it worked by simply finding the end digit in the URL and adding one, ie if you're viewing 42.jpg and hit "go where I want" you go to 43.jpg. But I've just had it figure out that the image after "07.jpg" is "chapter2-01.jpg".
HOW DOES IT KNOW?!
Even sadder, I skipped the comment, and then went back to it to find out what the "actress having sex on the beach" phrase was talking about :(
Personally, I'd like a choice of either. Though if I had to have one or the other, I'd go with pulling out the DVD -- that still works when I'm on a firewalled network (ie, at universities, where I am now).
Having just spent $40 on half life 2 myself, and finding myself unable to play it, I can guarantee that I'm not paying for any more of valve's products until they make steam optional :P
Yes, and it takes everything that depends on it away too. Which can be quite a lot, if the distro chooses. Which is exactly the grandparent's point :P
Seeing as most people who look at firefox's source code go blind soon after, I'm not buying this.
Yes, hundreds of thousands of people can in theory look at the source; but then all of them think that someone else will do it, and nobody actually *does*. (Not counting full time mozilla employees, since MS has full time IE employees, and they don't count towards the "many eyes" effect)
Most of those things are tiny amounts of code for generally useful functionality.
For finding actual performance bottlenecks, I'd stop speculating about removing random features which I don't personally use, and I'd start running an actual profiler on it so I knew exactly how much time was being spent doing what :P
But who led the country into a state of constant paranoia? Who took terrorism (which kills fewer people per year than starvation does per day), and made it the #1 most feared thing ever?