It is a beta release. Odd numbered releases, like the linux kernel, are unstable in GnuCash. The poster just didn't mention that. 2.0 will be the stable release. This is nothing more than a preview/stress test of new features and the new interface.
I agree, except for one - Quicken/Quickbooks. In the personal financial software department, OSS lags. How long has the gtk2 port of gnucash been under development? Since Gtk2 came out? How many years ago was that? There are definitely areas where the Open Source development model really lags, and this is one of them. Just to note, i haven't tried kmymoney yet.
Ahh, the viciously short-sighted "time is money" argument. For the hobbiest/amatuer film maker, every second spent writing, filming, and editing movies is completely worth it because they're working towards what they love to do, they're learning their craft, and they're having fun. My brother is an aspiring film maker and I never saw him so alive than when he was making his first film. If you really want to use the time-is-money argument, then look at it this way: if someone really, truly wants to make movies, then the time they put into making their movies is an investment in their future career. They might not be the next Tarentino or Ed Wood, but there are tons of small careers they can get into that use the skills they nurture by making silly movies like this one. Every second of their time counts.
Totally disagree. As long as it's still funny, i'll still watch it. The writing is far more insightful and funny than just about anything else out there. Thats the thing...when family guy was brought back the EXACT same writers and animators were hired on to do their thing, and family guy was given a multi-year contract - basically giving them license to push the envelope. The writing doesn't suck, they didn't sell out.
That's what he meant. He just said BIOS out of habit i'm sure. This is such a non-issue it's almost funny. There was a thread on the FreeBSD list about this actually...it boiled down to this:
(non-dev) "Will freebsd be able to support these?! I heard windows is having problems!!!"
(dev) "We've supported EFI for a while now. should be non-trivial"
I mean, if FreeBSD is already a majority of the way there without having any machines donated...i'm sure redhat should be able to do it in about a day without any problems. Seems like just them trying to get some media attention to me.
First of all, he is a nerd. He's a scientist. You can't be a scientist without being a nerd, it just comes with the territory. Second, he wasn't saying the grasping fins aren't scientifically significant, he was simply saying that the fact that this sets a new record is not scientifically significant. Instead, the physiology is the scientifically significan part (he mentions the vertibre, but the fins - i'm sure - are also significant).
If you could read what he said without problem, then you read very slowly.
Or I have effective filters to bad grammar, developed by years of internet communications. Speaking of bettering ones self, perhaps you should start with bitching less over innane details.
Which, of course, is why Einstein, Churchill, Tesla, and many others had impeccable linguistic style.
Oh, I'm sure you could find informal communacations where the above chose to use colloquial abreviations for words or phrases. In a professional environment, proper spelling and grammar are important. However, on slashdot...it's stupid to expect each post to be technically correct. To expect that implies mental retardation.
I think that only one person complains is due more to the fact that most BSD users DONT read slashdot. Slashdot has a history of abusing the BSD community (eg, letting a FreeBSD release story hit the main page before the release has been sent out to many mirrors, thus bogging down the main freebsd ftp site...the release engineering team has sent the guys here at slashdot many emails complaining about it)...not to mention the lack of insightful discussion on bsd topics.
There is no concrete evidence that BSD is dying. Research in the various flavors is alive and well, moving forward faster than it was 3 years ago. There are more flavors now, with different takes on the philosophy. And, of course, Apple helps to sustain/refine the Freebsd userland.
sure, but a checked array is a checked array, no matter what processor type you have. I guess this would mostly be a problem at the machine language level moreso than the higher-level-language...uh...level. And, since i know nothing about machine language specifics, i'll just go ahead and shut up now.
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. I think the worse slashdot appears, the better it will be. And honestly, 90% of the things grammar nazis point out I'm able to "parse" quite well the first time thought, while still assimilating the points the writer was trying to convey. Infact, your post was very straight forward and got the point across inspite of the purposeful errors.
And now to address this: Misuse off gramma, spelling and/or punctuation make's every reader waste a few second's while they work out what it actually mean's. Well all have to do a double-parsing, if you like.
Slashdot is a waste of time to begin with...so why worry if every reader wastes a few seconds "double parsing" the submission? Big freakin' deal, you're here to waste time. If you end up wasting more time "double parsing" a sentence, then slashdot is actually accomplishing your goal far more efficiently than it would had the submission been clear, concise, and well-written.
Also..."parsing" and "double parsing"? You're not a freakin' compiler or an interpreter, you're a human being. You don't parse, you assimilate and understand. If anything needs to be changed about slashdot, it's that the majority of readers need to stop pretending they're some half-computer half-human WYYZZRRDD, pull their head out of their ass, and address their real problems: bed sores, diabetes, not being able to see their penis while standing; everything that comes with being grossly obese.
Sure, pointing out grammar errors that force "double parsing" may make you feel superior, but in reality you're just a fat-assed loser who has nothing better to do than (1) LEARN everything they can about the most shit-tastic, illogical, fucked up language around and (2) berate those who ignorantly missuse it because they have more important things to focus on.
Effective communication is one thing. By-the-books linguistic fascism, however, is the mark of a mental midget.
I think I am on sig revision 5 now, still trying to get something that is intellectually provocative yet appealing to slashdot moderators.
How about no sig? It works for me. I'd rather have people focus on the issue i'm spouting on about, rather than pidgeonhole me ideologically based on my sig (Which people can and will do).
Find a cheap x86 box of any speed. Throw in a few big drives. Install some free unix variant. Share via samba and NFS (or just samba if that's easier). Then you put all your files that you want to access from any of the three OS's you mentioned on that server. They will be accessible anytime you need them. Problem solved.
The downside is some permissions problems with NFS, but that's easily solved with group permissions.
If you don't care about the possibility of viruses actually destroying your firmware, making your Computer completely unusable and unrepariable without expert tools, also probably nothing.
Wanna go into a bit more detail about this? Isn't virus susceptibility more dependent on the OS implementation than the processor architecture?
OS X is a BSD variant, and we all know that is not Unix
Yeah, no. BSD is Unix. It's not UNIX, however, but then again neither is linux. So, we don't all know that BSD is not Unix, infact most of us know that it IS Unix...you just happen to be one of the few that knows, incorrectly, that it is not. Dumbass.
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I can achieve anti-aliased fonts on linux without any effort.
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Where I come from, you're called a motard.
It is a beta release. Odd numbered releases, like the linux kernel, are unstable in GnuCash. The poster just didn't mention that. 2.0 will be the stable release. This is nothing more than a preview/stress test of new features and the new interface.
Clearly, you're a moron.
I have never, anywhere, ever, heard anyone say that you don't have to back up your data if you run UNIX
If you run UNIX, you don't have to back up your data.
There, now you've heard someone say it.
Props go to you. I hate when people use the word "proof", when they should use "Evidence". It's extremely misleading.
I agree, except for one - Quicken/Quickbooks. In the personal financial software department, OSS lags. How long has the gtk2 port of gnucash been under development? Since Gtk2 came out? How many years ago was that? There are definitely areas where the Open Source development model really lags, and this is one of them. Just to note, i haven't tried kmymoney yet.
Ahh, the viciously short-sighted "time is money" argument. For the hobbiest/amatuer film maker, every second spent writing, filming, and editing movies is completely worth it because they're working towards what they love to do, they're learning their craft, and they're having fun. My brother is an aspiring film maker and I never saw him so alive than when he was making his first film. If you really want to use the time-is-money argument, then look at it this way: if someone really, truly wants to make movies, then the time they put into making their movies is an investment in their future career. They might not be the next Tarentino or Ed Wood, but there are tons of small careers they can get into that use the skills they nurture by making silly movies like this one. Every second of their time counts.
Woops. I meant trivial there.
Totally disagree. As long as it's still funny, i'll still watch it. The writing is far more insightful and funny than just about anything else out there. Thats the thing...when family guy was brought back the EXACT same writers and animators were hired on to do their thing, and family guy was given a multi-year contract - basically giving them license to push the envelope. The writing doesn't suck, they didn't sell out.
That's what he meant. He just said BIOS out of habit i'm sure. This is such a non-issue it's almost funny. There was a thread on the FreeBSD list about this actually...it boiled down to this:
(non-dev) "Will freebsd be able to support these?! I heard windows is having problems!!!"
(dev) "We've supported EFI for a while now. should be non-trivial"
Actual Thread here
I mean, if FreeBSD is already a majority of the way there without having any machines donated...i'm sure redhat should be able to do it in about a day without any problems. Seems like just them trying to get some media attention to me.
First of all, he is a nerd. He's a scientist. You can't be a scientist without being a nerd, it just comes with the territory. Second, he wasn't saying the grasping fins aren't scientifically significant, he was simply saying that the fact that this sets a new record is not scientifically significant. Instead, the physiology is the scientifically significan part (he mentions the vertibre, but the fins - i'm sure - are also significant).
Homestarrunner. This makes the user laugh. Laughing is good for the user.
God, your a dumass.
If you could read what he said without problem, then you read very slowly.
Or I have effective filters to bad grammar, developed by years of internet communications. Speaking of bettering ones self, perhaps you should start with bitching less over innane details.
Which, of course, is why Einstein, Churchill, Tesla, and many others had impeccable linguistic style.
Oh, I'm sure you could find informal communacations where the above chose to use colloquial abreviations for words or phrases. In a professional environment, proper spelling and grammar are important. However, on slashdot...it's stupid to expect each post to be technically correct. To expect that implies mental retardation.
No, it just proves that you're a moron.
I think that only one person complains is due more to the fact that most BSD users DONT read slashdot. Slashdot has a history of abusing the BSD community (eg, letting a FreeBSD release story hit the main page before the release has been sent out to many mirrors, thus bogging down the main freebsd ftp site...the release engineering team has sent the guys here at slashdot many emails complaining about it)...not to mention the lack of insightful discussion on bsd topics.
There is no concrete evidence that BSD is dying. Research in the various flavors is alive and well, moving forward faster than it was 3 years ago. There are more flavors now, with different takes on the philosophy. And, of course, Apple helps to sustain/refine the Freebsd userland.
Mostly what's dying is your mom.
sure, but a checked array is a checked array, no matter what processor type you have. I guess this would mostly be a problem at the machine language level moreso than the higher-level-language...uh...level. And, since i know nothing about machine language specifics, i'll just go ahead and shut up now.
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. I think the worse slashdot appears, the better it will be. And honestly, 90% of the things grammar nazis point out I'm able to "parse" quite well the first time thought, while still assimilating the points the writer was trying to convey. Infact, your post was very straight forward and got the point across inspite of the purposeful errors.
And now to address this:
Misuse off gramma, spelling and/or punctuation make's every reader waste a few second's while they work out what it actually mean's. Well all have to do a double-parsing, if you like.
Slashdot is a waste of time to begin with...so why worry if every reader wastes a few seconds "double parsing" the submission? Big freakin' deal, you're here to waste time. If you end up wasting more time "double parsing" a sentence, then slashdot is actually accomplishing your goal far more efficiently than it would had the submission been clear, concise, and well-written.
Also..."parsing" and "double parsing"? You're not a freakin' compiler or an interpreter, you're a human being. You don't parse, you assimilate and understand. If anything needs to be changed about slashdot, it's that the majority of readers need to stop pretending they're some half-computer half-human WYYZZRRDD, pull their head out of their ass, and address their real problems: bed sores, diabetes, not being able to see their penis while standing; everything that comes with being grossly obese.
Sure, pointing out grammar errors that force "double parsing" may make you feel superior, but in reality you're just a fat-assed loser who has nothing better to do than (1) LEARN everything they can about the most shit-tastic, illogical, fucked up language around and (2) berate those who ignorantly missuse it because they have more important things to focus on.
Effective communication is one thing. By-the-books linguistic fascism, however, is the mark of a mental midget.
God your a dumass.
I think I am on sig revision 5 now, still trying to get something that is intellectually provocative yet appealing to slashdot moderators.
How about no sig? It works for me. I'd rather have people focus on the issue i'm spouting on about, rather than pidgeonhole me ideologically based on my sig (Which people can and will do).
Find a cheap x86 box of any speed. Throw in a few big drives. Install some free unix variant. Share via samba and NFS (or just samba if that's easier). Then you put all your files that you want to access from any of the three OS's you mentioned on that server. They will be accessible anytime you need them. Problem solved.
The downside is some permissions problems with NFS, but that's easily solved with group permissions.
If you don't care about the possibility of viruses actually destroying your firmware, making your Computer completely unusable and unrepariable without expert tools, also probably nothing.
Wanna go into a bit more detail about this? Isn't virus susceptibility more dependent on the OS implementation than the processor architecture?
OS X is a BSD variant, and we all know that is not Unix
Yeah, no. BSD is Unix. It's not UNIX, however, but then again neither is linux. So, we don't all know that BSD is not Unix, infact most of us know that it IS Unix...you just happen to be one of the few that knows, incorrectly, that it is not. Dumbass.
aMSN works on linux. MSN messenger does not.
I can honestly say I have never experienced any difference between the behavior of fonts of css formatting on firefox in windows, OS X, linux or FreeBSD. I think your linux install is fucked.
I can achieve anti-aliased fonts on linux without any effort.