am looking forward to the innovative new gameplay they will bring to the PS3. Innovative gameplay such as taking part in the defense of Hoth for the 18,647th time, or assaulting the Death Star for the 7,344th time.
Honestly, if you want the ease of debugging and correctness features of Pascal, along with a much cleaner, more powerful standard and compatibility with C, learn Ada95.
Recompile your kernel with hyper-threading disabled. Simple question: Why do I have to wait until this guy does his conference presentation to find out what the exploit is, how it is implemented?
You don't. He's giving people a heads up, and some lead time to secure their systems by doing exactly what you describe, before he gives a presentation on the flaw, which will inevitably lead to some malicious jackass building an exploit out of it.
I don't know if you remember, but this is how windows 95 worked. It was the most anoying thing, and I was extremely relieved when 98 came out and Microsoft changed the file manager. I cannot understand why the Gnome people would clone a decade old Microsoft model
It's been pointed out multiple time in this thread, but Microsoft has never shipped a spacial file manager. The Mac had one. BeOS had one. GNOME has one. Windows has never had one. Spatial Managers are explained here
"Opening every folder in a new window" is no more the same thing as "spatial" than "has four wheels" is the same thing as "sports utility vehicle". It's one aspect (and not, by far, the single most important) of a very particular kind of thing.
Oh, right. The Windows 2000/XP file browser sucks! I have an idea! Let's don't copy the Win2k/XP file browser! Let's copy the Windows 98 file browser instead! That's innovation!
You'd have a good point... if the Windows 95 and 98 browsers had been in any way, shape, or form spatial.
"Spatial" is not equivalent to "opens folders in a new window". Educate yourself.
I'm glad that you like it, but the decision to force it on the entire world was not the best one ever made by the GNOME project.
Force it on the entire world? Last time I checked, it was still possible to make Nautilus use "Windows File Browser" mode, and the gnome developers hadn't rendered the dozens of other Windows-esque file managers available for X inoperable. They added a choice, which happens to be the default setting, to allow Nautilus to behave in a different way. It's pretty much the only X file manager out there that dares to do something other than clone the Windows file browser, and for that "crime", it's widely castigated by the community.
God forbid those of us who think the Windows browser model is a horrible User Interface design should have an actual, viable option to choose.
God forbid that the GNOME developers should do anything other than follow the pack, and make their product indistinguishable from everyone else's.
God forbid that everyone who likes the browser model should have change an option, or install one of the dozen other managers that cater to their needs. But no, those of us who wanted something different were finally given an option, and that crime is apparently unforgivable.
Spatial Nautilus, frankly. There are about a thousand app launchers that accomplish the same thing as the "foot menu", but Spatial Nautilus is the only file manager avaiable that works the way I want a file manager to work.
What exactly does it mean if a document is covered by GPL? That whomever it is distributed to need to have access to the source of the document??
Also, that they could make any changes they wanted to it and redistribute it in any fashion they wanted provided they extend those same rights to any recipients.
The last time I installed SuSe it tried to use my PC speaker as a sound card, piping shreking tones out of it constantly until I gave up, did a hard reboot and installed something less buggy.
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if only laptop keyboards weren't ergonomically optimized for twelve-year old Japanese midgets.
Seriously, we can jam a 17" monster screen on to these things, how come we can't get a larger, less mushy keyboard under it??
Keep booting with OpenFirmware
am looking forward to the innovative new gameplay they will bring to the PS3. Innovative gameplay such as taking part in the defense of Hoth for the 18,647th time, or assaulting the Death Star for the 7,344th time.
If their neighbour's kid was firing a magnetron at them, the results wouldn't be headaches and lupus.
Honestly, if you want the ease of debugging and correctness features of Pascal, along with a much cleaner, more powerful standard and compatibility with C, learn Ada95.
Recompile your kernel with hyper-threading disabled. Simple question: Why do I have to wait until this guy does his conference presentation to find out what the exploit is, how it is implemented?
You don't. He's giving people a heads up, and some lead time to secure their systems by doing exactly what you describe, before he gives a presentation on the flaw, which will inevitably lead to some malicious jackass building an exploit out of it.
How is that really any different to writing the data to any other filesystem?
If the nvram ends up corrupted, it's no big deal. If the filesystem, or a critical file on it, ends up in an incosistent state, you're in deep shit.
They could have just included some code to have it refuse to boot after June 30, 2009.
Both his State's labor board and the IRS would be very interested to know that he was withholding wages.
Well if you don't live in America, then it don't apply to you. Seems simple enough.
Except that I don't live in the US and it does apply to me.
I'm not sure Apple Gets It though. Why in the world would they use XML configs?
To make it easy to edit the files both by hand and via utilities which can be written very easily by leveraging existing XML parsing libraries?
Yeah, this smells of lying through statistics.
Most ventures fail. Most IT ventures fail, especially when the IT bubble burst.
The only relevant question is whether open-source ventures fail any more often than the average IT venture.
Because stealing from Apple just works.
Where in god's name did you get the idea that either Konqueror or Windows 95 were spatial? I'm not retyping all this again
I don't know if you remember, but this is how windows 95 worked. It was the most anoying thing, and I was extremely relieved when 98 came out and Microsoft changed the file manager. I cannot understand why the Gnome people would clone a decade old Microsoft model
It's been pointed out multiple time in this thread, but Microsoft has never shipped a spacial file manager. The Mac had one. BeOS had one. GNOME has one. Windows has never had one. Spatial Managers are explained here
"Opening every folder in a new window" is no more the same thing as "spatial" than "has four wheels" is the same thing as "sports utility vehicle". It's one aspect (and not, by far, the single most important) of a very particular kind of thing.
Oh, right. The Windows 2000/XP file browser sucks! I have an idea! Let's don't copy the Win2k/XP file browser! Let's copy the Windows 98 file browser instead! That's innovation!
You'd have a good point... if the Windows 95 and 98 browsers had been in any way, shape, or form spatial.
"Spatial" is not equivalent to "opens folders in a new window". Educate yourself.
I'm glad that you like it, but the decision to force it on the entire world was not the best one ever made by the GNOME project.
Force it on the entire world? Last time I checked, it was still possible to make Nautilus use "Windows File Browser" mode, and the gnome developers hadn't rendered the dozens of other Windows-esque file managers available for X inoperable. They added a choice, which happens to be the default setting, to allow Nautilus to behave in a different way. It's pretty much the only X file manager out there that dares to do something other than clone the Windows file browser, and for that "crime", it's widely castigated by the community.
God forbid those of us who think the Windows browser model is a horrible User Interface design should have an actual, viable option to choose.
God forbid that the GNOME developers should do anything other than follow the pack, and make their product indistinguishable from everyone else's.
God forbid that everyone who likes the browser model should have change an option, or install one of the dozen other managers that cater to their needs. But no, those of us who wanted something different were finally given an option, and that crime is apparently unforgivable.
No, just a user.
Mods, why is this marked "insightful" rather than "funny"? Did I suddenly become a GNOME dev when I wasn't looking?
Awesome. Go forth and use it.
Isn't choice grand?
Spatial Nautilus, frankly. There are about a thousand app launchers that accomplish the same thing as the "foot menu", but Spatial Nautilus is the only file manager avaiable that works the way I want a file manager to work.
While OS X has an X Server available for it, its primary GUI has always been implemented with its own GUI system that had nothing in common with X11.
What exactly does it mean if a document is covered by GPL? That whomever it is distributed to need to have access to the source of the document??
Also, that they could make any changes they wanted to it and redistribute it in any fashion they wanted provided they extend those same rights to any recipients.
The last time I installed SuSe it tried to use my PC speaker as a sound card, piping shreking tones out of it constantly until I gave up, did a hard reboot and installed something less buggy.
You get what you pay for.
That was intended to read "dual core proc G5s...".
Damn slashdot and its lack of an edit function.
Dual core proc machine has 2 cores on one proc.
A dual proc machine has 2 cores on two seperate procs.
Dual proc G5s are rumored to be coming out "real soon now".