Integrating a web browser into a desktop environment seems like a bad plan. Surely there are certain specific uses, such as for dedicated internet cafes or something, but this would be moving towards a Windows-like platform.
People here on slashdot are always complaining about the integration of internet explorer with windows for two primary reasons. The first is that you have no choice regarding whether or not you want to use the windows GUI with IE if you want to use windows. The second reason, which is relevant here, is that there's really no good reason why _any_ web browser should be integrated with the desktop environment. Completely apart from the lack of choice aspect, it's simply bad software design.
Mozilla is primarily intended as a web-browser (and mail/news client, etc.), so use it as a web-browser. Add enhancments that help it do a better job of web-browsing, reading news, or things of the like. If you make Mozilla into a desktop environment, you turn a nice piece of software into a block that's larger than most people want/need.
While it was a guideline and not a hard rule, we'd do well to remember the unix philosophy of making small tools that do one thing well.
Since there is no absolute source of right and wrong in the universe, our own beliefs are the best we've got.
Interestingly, your statement disproves itself. There must be a standard of objective absolute truth, because if there was not, then it would be objectively, absolutely true that objective truth does not exist, which is a contradiction. Therefore there exists at least some truth that is objective (ie. true in all places, at all times, for all people). Whether or not human rights are one of the objective truths is a separate matter.
Mars rover Opportunity has found a rock (nicknamed 'Bounce') that "provides conclusive evidence not only of Martian meteorites on Earth, but also of the possibility of cross-seeding." Not only that, but according to the UPI article: 'The discovery of Bounce raises the distinct possibility that life arising from a common source could have existed for a time on both worlds.
Perhaps I'm just unfamiliar with the lingo being used here, but the words conclusive and possibility don't quite seem to make sense when both used in reference to the same evidence.
Certainly. However, there's a big difference between stating that not using a strategy guide makes you a better player, and stating that because you don't need one "Strategy guides ruin all video gaming. They should all go away.".
Strategy guides should all die. Anyone who ever looks in a strategy guide prior to beating a video game is a total loser. The fun of the game is figuring out the puzzle and things. If someone just tells you how to do it, what's the point?
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Strategy guides ruin all video gaming. They should all go away. However, there are exceptions. The exception is fighting games.
It seems to me as though he IS assuming that being the best possible game player is the only valid source of entertainment. Also, there is not an ETC in his post: I searched with mozilla to be sure I hadn't just skipped over it. Perhaps you're thinking of my post, which contains two.
Now if, like the original poster, solving the puzzles or being the best at a game is the only method from which you derive entertainment, then strategy guides may ruin the gaming experience for you. I was simply pointing out a few possible ways that people enjoy games which are not negatively affected by strategy guides, or which are positively affected by them. I think that everyone would agree that the primary purpose of a GAME is to create fun, and if somebody enjoys a game for different reasons you can't really say that your fun is better than theirs unless they somehow prevent others from having fun (ie. cheating in multiplayer games).
The fun of the game is figuring out the puzzle and things.
I would disagree with that statement. Obviously, figuring out the puzzles, etc. is fun, but it is far from the ONLY source of fun in a video game.
Some people enjoy leveling up RPG characters so that they can defeat any enemy in one attack. Some people enjoy finding every secret item/level/etc. in the game. Some people like to play games in a movie-like fashion, and their enjoyment comes from the storyline/graphics/music rather than from deducing the solutions to the puzzles. Some people appreciate the cleverness of the puzzles from an objective point of view without being interested in solving the puzzles themselves.
I certainly do not agree with all of the viewpoints mentioned above, but the point is that different people enjoy different aspects of the same game, and I don't think we should be able to say that only a single method of enjoyment is valid.
That is not a very good argument in favour of using less advanced systems. There are many valid arguments in favour of using what's known to work... proven reliability, difficulty of switching, even plain old tradition. However, stating that we shouldn't use something new because other older things are still in use is a pretty silly line of reasoning.
If Linux gets a few new features in the next few years, what's to stop SCO accusing them from looking at the stuff that needs royalties, or looking at the leaked source code?
What stops them is that SCO has full access to the Linux source code under the Open Source license just like the rest of us. If there was any hint of the SCO leaked code in Linux, nothing would give SCO greater pleasure than to come down hard on the Linux team.
Give the kernel developers a little more intelligence than that, please!
The point is that the it doesn't matter whether or not the SAMBA team looks at these published API specs/leaked code files or not. Microsoft can lie.
Equally, such flags as -O3, which Gentoo users seem to apply to everything, can actually be WORSE as they increase code size (function inlining) and thus result in more CPU cache misses.
I'll admit that my knowledge of processor architecture is quite limited, but it seems to me that inlining functions would prevent cache misses since you're just running a long sequential block of code instead of jumping around to run code from different parts of memory.
know of similar services that exist for free nowdays, or does anyone remember using interesting, unique services from the dotcom boom that no longer exist?
Yeah, its called going outside and talking to people.
So going outside and talking to people is a unique service that no longer exists:)?
I don't know whether enough people knew about if for it to get an award, but a company has been claiming to be producing a new console called the "Phantom". Apparently their production facilities were investigated and found to be a very large, empty office with a single desk in it. Let the vapourware jokes begin:).
There are many thing cheaper than an Athlon64 that will increase productivity. An intern, for example.
I wouldn't imagine that changing from an Intel P4 to an Athlon 64 could cost more than about $1500, even if you went for the FX version and needed to buy new registered memory + motherboard. How long can you pay for an intern with that much money:)?
Personally, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did copy linux code into Windows wherever it fits. After all, nobody checks their source to be able to tell on them, and if someone does find out, what's the worst that can happen? They pay a few million in damages out of how many billion?
I don't know about babylonian religions, but 12 is definately a recurring number in the Bible. There were 12 tribes of Israel, 12 Apostles, etc. Off the top of my head, I'd say the most common significant numbers in the Bible are 1, 3, 7, 12, and 40.
Although anecdotal evidence is no proof, I have had a hard drive die after being stored in an unheated garage during winter. This is Canadian winter, so it's pretty cold, but still nowhere near -100:).
I currently run Gentoo, and while I'm quite happy with it, I think it's rather naive to say that the install guide accounts for all possible problems. I had problems installing Gentoo due to kernel problems, which are still problems even if Gentoo isn't responsible for them. As it turns out, I eventually discovered that the reason why the install process was repeatedly freezing (very odd for linux) was that an obscure bug existed in the driver for my sata hard drive controller. Switching controllers was no problem, as my motherboard has two, but there was obviously no reason why the install docs should mention this problem.
Anyway, I've ranted long enough. My point isn't that the Gentoo install docs are bad; I think they're very good. My point is that it's impossible to create installation directions for a source-based distro like Gentoo that will always result in no problems.
I don't know much about this kind of cooling, but if the compressors are being used to cool the air going through these machines, wouldn't they be worried about physically damaging the machines by cracking them? Keeping a computer cool is all well and good, but at a certain temperature the physical elements composing the hardware are bound to contract different amounts, causing damage. Maybe this only happens at -250 degrees, and not -100, but presumably there is a reason that hardware manufacturers state a minimum operating temperature for their components.
Robert Minvielle put to test AMD's Opteron regarding its 64-bit Linux compatibility.
I don't mean to nitpick, but probably the story submitter meant linux's Opteron compatibility? I don't think it's the job of the Opteron to support linux:P.
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"This stems largely from a personal belief that DNA sequence is a discovery as opposed to an invention and should not be patentable,"
Pfft. That's silly. Newton should've patented gravity:).
(For the humour-impaired: this is a joke:)
Integrating a web browser into a desktop environment seems like a bad plan. Surely there are certain specific uses, such as for dedicated internet cafes or something, but this would be moving towards a Windows-like platform.
People here on slashdot are always complaining about the integration of internet explorer with windows for two primary reasons. The first is that you have no choice regarding whether or not you want to use the windows GUI with IE if you want to use windows. The second reason, which is relevant here, is that there's really no good reason why _any_ web browser should be integrated with the desktop environment. Completely apart from the lack of choice aspect, it's simply bad software design.
Mozilla is primarily intended as a web-browser (and mail/news client, etc.), so use it as a web-browser. Add enhancments that help it do a better job of web-browsing, reading news, or things of the like. If you make Mozilla into a desktop environment, you turn a nice piece of software into a block that's larger than most people want/need.
While it was a guideline and not a hard rule, we'd do well to remember the unix philosophy of making small tools that do one thing well.
Interestingly, your statement disproves itself. There must be a standard of objective absolute truth, because if there was not, then it would be objectively, absolutely true that objective truth does not exist, which is a contradiction. Therefore there exists at least some truth that is objective (ie. true in all places, at all times, for all people). Whether or not human rights are one of the objective truths is a separate matter.
Perhaps I'm just unfamiliar with the lingo being used here, but the words conclusive and possibility don't quite seem to make sense when both used in reference to the same evidence.
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Certainly. However, there's a big difference between stating that not using a strategy guide makes you a better player, and stating that because you don't need one "Strategy guides ruin all video gaming. They should all go away.".
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Strategy guides ruin all video gaming. They should all go away. However, there are exceptions. The exception is fighting games.
It seems to me as though he IS assuming that being the best possible game player is the only valid source of entertainment. Also, there is not an ETC in his post: I searched with mozilla to be sure I hadn't just skipped over it. Perhaps you're thinking of my post, which contains two.
Now if, like the original poster, solving the puzzles or being the best at a game is the only method from which you derive entertainment, then strategy guides may ruin the gaming experience for you. I was simply pointing out a few possible ways that people enjoy games which are not negatively affected by strategy guides, or which are positively affected by them. I think that everyone would agree that the primary purpose of a GAME is to create fun, and if somebody enjoys a game for different reasons you can't really say that your fun is better than theirs unless they somehow prevent others from having fun (ie. cheating in multiplayer games).
I would disagree with that statement. Obviously, figuring out the puzzles, etc. is fun, but it is far from the ONLY source of fun in a video game.
Some people enjoy leveling up RPG characters so that they can defeat any enemy in one attack. Some people enjoy finding every secret item/level/etc. in the game. Some people like to play games in a movie-like fashion, and their enjoyment comes from the storyline/graphics/music rather than from deducing the solutions to the puzzles. Some people appreciate the cleverness of the puzzles from an objective point of view without being interested in solving the puzzles themselves.
I certainly do not agree with all of the viewpoints mentioned above, but the point is that different people enjoy different aspects of the same game, and I don't think we should be able to say that only a single method of enjoyment is valid.
No. However, this makes available several common jokes:):
-In Soviet Russia, old ladies ram you off the road!
-I am an old lady, you insensitive clod!
etc.
That is not a very good argument in favour of using less advanced systems. There are many valid arguments in favour of using what's known to work... proven reliability, difficulty of switching, even plain old tradition. However, stating that we shouldn't use something new because other older things are still in use is a pretty silly line of reasoning.
If Linux gets a few new features in the next few years, what's to stop SCO accusing them from looking at the stuff that needs royalties, or looking at the leaked source code?
What stops them is that SCO has full access to the Linux source code under the Open Source license just like the rest of us. If there was any hint of the SCO leaked code in Linux, nothing would give SCO greater pleasure than to come down hard on the Linux team.
Give the kernel developers a little more intelligence than that, please!
The point is that the it doesn't matter whether or not the SAMBA team looks at these published API specs/leaked code files or not. Microsoft can lie.
I'll admit that my knowledge of processor architecture is quite limited, but it seems to me that inlining functions would prevent cache misses since you're just running a long sequential block of code instead of jumping around to run code from different parts of memory.
Yeah, its called going outside and talking to people.
So going outside and talking to people is a unique service that no longer exists:)?
How do you download something at all without some sort of Internet connection:)?
Wow, it appears that my parent post was a first post, completely by accident:). I wonder if I should be happy or sad/worried;).
I don't know whether enough people knew about if for it to get an award, but a company has been claiming to be producing a new console called the "Phantom". Apparently their production facilities were investigated and found to be a very large, empty office with a single desk in it. Let the vapourware jokes begin:).
I wouldn't imagine that changing from an Intel P4 to an Athlon 64 could cost more than about $1500, even if you went for the FX version and needed to buy new registered memory + motherboard. How long can you pay for an intern with that much money:)?
Joke of the day: Commander Sisko has discovered the wormhole:)!
Personally, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did copy linux code into Windows wherever it fits. After all, nobody checks their source to be able to tell on them, and if someone does find out, what's the worst that can happen? They pay a few million in damages out of how many billion?
I don't know about babylonian religions, but 12 is definately a recurring number in the Bible. There were 12 tribes of Israel, 12 Apostles, etc. Off the top of my head, I'd say the most common significant numbers in the Bible are 1, 3, 7, 12, and 40.
I heard that God has a patent on creating humans out of dust;). Does that count?
Although anecdotal evidence is no proof, I have had a hard drive die after being stored in an unheated garage during winter. This is Canadian winter, so it's pretty cold, but still nowhere near -100 :).
Anyway, I've ranted long enough. My point isn't that the Gentoo install docs are bad; I think they're very good. My point is that it's impossible to create installation directions for a source-based distro like Gentoo that will always result in no problems.
I don't know much about this kind of cooling, but if the compressors are being used to cool the air going through these machines, wouldn't they be worried about physically damaging the machines by cracking them? Keeping a computer cool is all well and good, but at a certain temperature the physical elements composing the hardware are bound to contract different amounts, causing damage. Maybe this only happens at -250 degrees, and not -100, but presumably there is a reason that hardware manufacturers state a minimum operating temperature for their components.
I don't mean to nitpick, but probably the story submitter meant linux's Opteron compatibility? I don't think it's the job of the Opteron to support linux:P.