"Never been done before" except in 1979 at Ixtoc (3.6km down vs 1.5km for Deepwater Horizons), where a top-kill + junk shot slowed the spill, and relief wells stopped it. Never been done successfully at this depth, true, but it HAS been done before at a well over twice as deep.
So choices are inherently bad, monocultures are good, and those who already made the choice to go with the desktop environment that offers more choices/configurability don't really want that, they just want you to tell them what to click on. Most people aren't KDE users, and as much as I'd love to see KDE go more mainstream and ship with better defaults I don't want to see the ability to customize go away. Requiem's points are valid, KDE does do several things "oddly" by default, and it may well be better to conform more to other OSes. That said, it's silly to look at the more configurable of the major Linux DEs and complain about problems that can all be solved without much effort. Sure, complain that the defaults should be changed, but don't complain that the DE is inherently bad and can't be made good.
My apps show up in the tray just fine. My desktop icons don't have windows around them, unless I make the folder view small to group them or something similarly silly. One of KDE's advantages has always been configurability, have you even tried to configure it?
I agree. Horizontal tabs are a bit silly, especially with tree-style tabs. The ability to keep a tree of parent->child tab relations, fold up subtrees, etc is great for organizing lots of tabs. Any time I'm doing research it helps.
I have an MFC-7440N. Monochrome, but printer/scanner/fax, built-in network print server, postscript, and Linux drivers. Had no real issues so far. IIRC was about $140.
None of those are the kernel of the OS. The MS Reference Source license is not an Open Source license (used for.net), and while the MS-CLI license and Common Public Licenses are (CLI and WiX respectively) neither one is nearly as important a component.
And they don't have to release a general purpose compiler they didn't modify. If they built it with MS Visual Studio they can just tell you that they used Visual Studio and provide any needed build scripts, no need to give you a copy of VS.
"Windows" is a Microsoft product. Windowing OSes aren't. The Win 3.0 line was the first widespread success MS had in the "Windows" OS, before that MS-DOS was more common.
It's more open than Windows (some source is open (darwin, webkit, clang, etc), hardware more locked down), and much more open than a PS3 (some source open, both hardware locked).
That and the Mac is pretty open. Darwin is open, and it's not restricted like an iPod/iPad or such. It's more open in many ways than Windows, though closed in some others (locked to apple hardware).
So Kurt Gödel, Douglas Hofstadter, and Alan Turing are retarded.
True, the word "useless" is not entirely correct, "incapable acting as a Turing machine" or "incapable of performing an arbitrary sequence of calculations with the provided operators" are more correct. You can't use a SQL-injection exploit on an abacus. It just won't work. You also can't serve a web-page with an abacus. While some systems can be designed such that they don't need any "advanced" functionality the level at which one encounters "advanced" is not much higher than an abacus. A user could check every instruction, but why not just do everything with pencil and paper?
There's also a difference between "can't tell if a particular piece of code is harmful without executing it" and "can't tell if an arbitrary input of well-formed code is harmful without executing it." Anti-virus software works because of this: It contains a (finite) list of (particular) patterns that are known to be bad, selected from the (infinite, arbitrary) set of bad patterns. As long as the finite list is equal to or larger than the finite list of actual viruses in the wild the computer can't get infected. Of course it's always smaller than the list of viruses, so computers get infected.
I'll bite.
You do not have the right to trample others' rights in an attempt to not be offended. Not being offended is a choice you can make about any given situation, not a right that lets you restrict the freedoms of others.
Is "faggot" a swear? Is "nigger" a swear? If yes (because they're racist/sexist terms) then the german-derived swears (all but "bitch" really) shouldn't be, because making them swears is racist. Specifically the Roman Catholic Church's educated tongue was Latin, and words in the local ("vulgar") languages became "bad" or "dirty" words. If being a racist isn't bad, then "nigger" isn't a problem and "fuck" is. If it is bad, then "nigger" is a swear and "fuck" isn't.
Personally the only swear I recognize is "Belgium".
I currently work at Radio Shack (between college times, surprisingly more enjoyable than I expected) and I know they don't do mail-in rebates. Can't say anything about pricing, as any such communications I may or may not have received are confidential, I am not a corporate representative, nothing I say here is to be taken as Radio Shack policy, etc, etc.
Also, at least in my area of California the state still charges tax on the FULL, unsubsidised price of the phone. So expect a nice hefty tax ($50 or so in my region).
For B, IIRC sprint prorates their early termination fees. Some stores allow upgrades at a partial discount after one year, instead of two, but I think that's only Sprint stores. YMMV.
Slashcode supports unicode, Slashdot blocks all but a small whitelist of characters. The block is because people were abusing flow control characters to do "interesting" things.
Where 'Former School IT: "I got your 'Bye Bye' right here, baby."' is 'Former School IT: "Have a nice whistleblower protection lawsuit, would you like some child pornography charges with that?"'
Am I the only one who read that as "Birds, ants, spiders, golfers, and a whole lot more build structures to live more comfortably in. Humans need to stop thinking they are so special."?
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"Never been done before" except in 1979 at Ixtoc (3.6km down vs 1.5km for Deepwater Horizons), where a top-kill + junk shot slowed the spill, and relief wells stopped it. Never been done successfully at this depth, true, but it HAS been done before at a well over twice as deep.
So choices are inherently bad, monocultures are good, and those who already made the choice to go with the desktop environment that offers more choices/configurability don't really want that, they just want you to tell them what to click on. Most people aren't KDE users, and as much as I'd love to see KDE go more mainstream and ship with better defaults I don't want to see the ability to customize go away. Requiem's points are valid, KDE does do several things "oddly" by default, and it may well be better to conform more to other OSes. That said, it's silly to look at the more configurable of the major Linux DEs and complain about problems that can all be solved without much effort. Sure, complain that the defaults should be changed, but don't complain that the DE is inherently bad and can't be made good.
My apps show up in the tray just fine. My desktop icons don't have windows around them, unless I make the folder view small to group them or something similarly silly. One of KDE's advantages has always been configurability, have you even tried to configure it?
And then the mud stops moving. It tends to solidify to be much more like concrete than mud.
I agree. Horizontal tabs are a bit silly, especially with tree-style tabs. The ability to keep a tree of parent->child tab relations, fold up subtrees, etc is great for organizing lots of tabs. Any time I'm doing research it helps.
I have an MFC-7440N. Monochrome, but printer/scanner/fax, built-in network print server, postscript, and Linux drivers. Had no real issues so far. IIRC was about $140.
None of those are the kernel of the OS. The MS Reference Source license is not an Open Source license (used for .net), and while the MS-CLI license and Common Public Licenses are (CLI and WiX respectively) neither one is nearly as important a component.
And they don't have to release a general purpose compiler they didn't modify. If they built it with MS Visual Studio they can just tell you that they used Visual Studio and provide any needed build scripts, no need to give you a copy of VS.
"Windows" is a Microsoft product. Windowing OSes aren't. The Win 3.0 line was the first widespread success MS had in the "Windows" OS, before that MS-DOS was more common.
It's more open than Windows (some source is open (darwin, webkit, clang, etc), hardware more locked down), and much more open than a PS3 (some source open, both hardware locked).
That and the Mac is pretty open. Darwin is open, and it's not restricted like an iPod/iPad or such. It's more open in many ways than Windows, though closed in some others (locked to apple hardware).
IIRC the most commonly counterfeited bills are $20s anyway. Fewer protections, more common to see (ATMs give out $20s), easier to spend.
Aha! Calculus training fee!
So Kurt Gödel, Douglas Hofstadter, and Alan Turing are retarded.
True, the word "useless" is not entirely correct, "incapable acting as a Turing machine" or "incapable of performing an arbitrary sequence of calculations with the provided operators" are more correct. You can't use a SQL-injection exploit on an abacus. It just won't work. You also can't serve a web-page with an abacus. While some systems can be designed such that they don't need any "advanced" functionality the level at which one encounters "advanced" is not much higher than an abacus. A user could check every instruction, but why not just do everything with pencil and paper?
There's also a difference between "can't tell if a particular piece of code is harmful without executing it" and "can't tell if an arbitrary input of well-formed code is harmful without executing it." Anti-virus software works because of this: It contains a (finite) list of (particular) patterns that are known to be bad, selected from the (infinite, arbitrary) set of bad patterns. As long as the finite list is equal to or larger than the finite list of actual viruses in the wild the computer can't get infected. Of course it's always smaller than the list of viruses, so computers get infected.
Prove it.
I'll bite.
You do not have the right to trample others' rights in an attempt to not be offended. Not being offended is a choice you can make about any given situation, not a right that lets you restrict the freedoms of others.
Is "faggot" a swear? Is "nigger" a swear? If yes (because they're racist/sexist terms) then the german-derived swears (all but "bitch" really) shouldn't be, because making them swears is racist. Specifically the Roman Catholic Church's educated tongue was Latin, and words in the local ("vulgar") languages became "bad" or "dirty" words. If being a racist isn't bad, then "nigger" isn't a problem and "fuck" is. If it is bad, then "nigger" is a swear and "fuck" isn't.
Personally the only swear I recognize is "Belgium".
And to file bug reports, preferably detailed.
Interesting. I'm on Kubuntu 10.04 and the repo-installed Firefox is at version 3.6.3 and the page displays fine.
I currently work at Radio Shack (between college times, surprisingly more enjoyable than I expected) and I know they don't do mail-in rebates. Can't say anything about pricing, as any such communications I may or may not have received are confidential, I am not a corporate representative, nothing I say here is to be taken as Radio Shack policy, etc, etc.
Also, at least in my area of California the state still charges tax on the FULL, unsubsidised price of the phone. So expect a nice hefty tax ($50 or so in my region).
For B, IIRC sprint prorates their early termination fees. Some stores allow upgrades at a partial discount after one year, instead of two, but I think that's only Sprint stores. YMMV.
Slashcode supports unicode, Slashdot blocks all but a small whitelist of characters. The block is because people were abusing flow control characters to do "interesting" things.
M-x viper-mode solves that.
Where 'Former School IT: "I got your 'Bye Bye' right here, baby."' is 'Former School IT: "Have a nice whistleblower protection lawsuit, would you like some child pornography charges with that?"'
Hydrogen has the potential for a much higher energy density than batteries (new battery tech might change that, but hasn't so far.) "The regenerative fuel cell, coupled with lightweight hydrogen storage, had by far the highest energy density--about 450 watt-hours per kilogram--ten times that of lead-acid batteries and more than twice that forecast for any chemical batteries." So you waste solar energy charging the things (land area used), but gain a better battery. They can also be much faster to charge, since you simply need to add hydrogen and oxygen to the storage tanks, instead of waiting several hours for an electric current to charge a battery.
Hydrogen fuel cells aren't really about using less energy, they're about being a practical alternative to gasoline. Battery tech isn't there yet, fuel cells aren't either but may become practical sooner. Wasted solar energy does not impose extra costs in the same way as wasted fossil fuel energy.
Am I the only one who read that as "Birds, ants, spiders, golfers, and a whole lot more build structures to live more comfortably in. Humans need to stop thinking they are so special."?