100,000 * 1.5 gigs each is just too much over such a short time for anybody except an established file-serving company.
Or BitTorrent.
In fact, since there'll only be a 2-3 day window for making the downloads, its the PERFECT use-case for bittorrent. (And obviously, both you and Blizzard are aware of the BT protocol)
The whining, moaning, and outright hatred expressed in those places is a regular feature.
Uh, that's their JOB. Betas aren't a free sample for dedicated customers- they are "testers", and are supposed to express loud opinions about the product.
If they didn't whine, it'd be shirking responsibility.
That's a poorly-crafted search term. Too many words in the query means fewer good responses. In this case, the word "free" is basically redundant with "linux", and "burning" is just extra-syllables onto "burn" (try to use the root form of words whenever possible). "Linux DVD Burn" would've been better.
But regardless of that, the page of results given by your query is indeed useful. Two of the results go to forum discussions on LinuxQuestions.org, where a person has asked almost exactly the same question, and gotten almost exactly the same response ("Get K3B") as Asking Slashdot produced.
I guess the reason for no mention of k3b on freshmeat is more kde's braindamaged way of packaging applications
Wrong. Freshmeat has a page for k3b, independent of any larger "kde-tools" package. But you can't find it by searching by reasonable keywords like "DVD burn"- you have to already know that k3b is what you want to search for.
The problem's not the completeness of freshmeat, but the lack of a good way to browse/search.
Freshmeat.net exists and its platform and even license independent.
First, note that "k3b" is one of the least-informative program names imaginable. It provides ZERO descriptive data (aside from possibly the fact that it uses KDE). Nobody can be expected to guess that she wants "k3b" to make DVDs. So what happens if you search for a "DVD burner" on freshmeat.net?
Searching for "DVD burner" gives 0 hits. "DVD burn" gives 8 hits, but k3b isn't one of them. "cd burn" gives 7 hits, again without mentioning k3b.
Searching for "DVD" by itself produces 128 results, but again, k3b isn't in there. So apparently a freshmeat search is useless, unless you already knew the cryptic 3-character app name.
A google-search (such as for "linux dvd burn") would've faster and more fruitful. Rather sad that freshmeat isn't a good place to search for Free software...
Deckard obviously possessed superhuman strength and stamina, it wouldn't take long before people figured out that he was a replicant.
If it were possible to detect a replicant by measuring it's strength, then they wouldn't have needed all the subtle emotional-response testing.
That's the big scientific plot-hole in the thing... regardless of your strength, it's impossible to dangle Harrison Ford at arm's length in front of you, unless (a) you weigh 4 times as much as him, or (b) you have clawed feet to grip into the roof.
So replicants, as portrayed in that film, could've been detected merely by throwing them on a scale. (Or taking a sample of skin-cells and checking if it burns, etc). The only replicants that you'd NEED psychological testing for are those which have no exceptional physical abilities. And given that artificial animals routinely had serial-numbers burned into their cells, it makes no sense that Nexus 6 replicants would lack such distinguishing marks.
PS. Nothing in the movie proves that Deckard is weaker than the replicants. Just because he doesn't use strength doesn't mean he lacks it.
Ugh. How could you stand it? Gnome was quite horrible until just recently. 3 little words: "File Open Dialog".
trying out Qingy (a GUI replacement for getty that let's you run different sessions on different virtual teminals, like Gnome on VT1, KDE on VT2, text console on VT3, all chosen at login time.)
You don't need additional software to test multiple desktop environments concurrently.
For example, you can run Gnome from the normal login screen, then push Control-Alt-F1 to get a text login, and run X from there with "startx --:1" command. You then have two X servers running, on Alt-F7 and Alt-F8 keys. To specify which environment the 2nd server loads, do something like "startx/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/KDE --:1" (picking a file from Gentoo stores X sessions)
That technique is especially useful if you want to run a fullscreen 3d program, like Unreal Tournament.
a brand-new install, when you wanted to play with your shiny new desktop, and you had to wait for the damn index run to finish.
That is a good point HD-indexer authors should address. Following a new install, you naturally had no personal files yet- only the OS & bundled applications. But most users will only want their index to search files they've written or downloaded. That's an opportunity to save time.
Because, like Google, this feature will parse through various filetypes to index only human-readable text. Google can extract the text from HTML, PDF, ASCII, Powerpoint, DOC, and other files.
This will need to do that too. Otherwise searching for "font" would hit on every HTML file that changes a font, and not only those which have "font" in the body text.
That's still meaningless. Yes, one valid way to visualize a disk filesystem is with directories being a kind of file that links to other files.
But Google's trick is to classify the subject of a page not just by it's own content, but by the links that point to it- on the theory that 3rd parties are less likely to mislead about a page's true subject.
That just doesn't map to a single-user PC. Searching for file according to the directory they come under is barely different from hunting for them manually.
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Network transparency is why I said "URL", not "filename".
What kind of URL were you proposing, then? I assumed "file://" at first. But if you claim it'll be network transparent, then "http://" comes closer- but still isn't good enough. For starters, you'd need to install webserver capability in each X applcation with a Copy command...
And even so, one can't be certain that two X applications on different computers will be able to reach each other by hostname, or even ip address.
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It is stupid to have to have totally seperate code to interpret a memory buffer in a totally different format provided by an unrelated "copy and paste interface".
Code reuse is good, but it could be accomplished in a better way than what you suggest.
If the user selects an image or anything that is not obviously a text string, then it should write that data to a temp file, and the copy should be the URL of that text file. And then when they paste it, the recieving program inserts that file,
And kill network transparency while you're at it?
Today I can ssh to two remote computers, run X apps on each one, and C&P data between them. Your proposal will break that ability, either completely, or only partially (in ways that are inconsistent to the end user).
A better approach:
On a Copy action, the application informs X that data has been copied, and makes a local copy in a RAM buffer (a step that can be optimized out if the document itself is unchanging).
On a Paste action, X goes back to the application where the Copy was invoked and tells it to write the data to a file, but to a special pseudo-file pointer that goes not to an actual filesystem, but rather to a buffer handled by the X server.
Then the X server hands that same pseudo-filepointer to the Pasting app, which then reads it like a file in the normal way
That requires one extra layer of indirection in the file i/o code, but allows code reuse while maintaining network transparency. (Naturally, in the common case that both applications are on PC (a) and the X server is on PC (b), a form of short-circuiting should take place to avoid excessive network traffic)
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The attraction is that a clipboard is about a BILLION times faster and easier to use than juggling files, if all you want to do is move something from app A to app B.
Furthermore, since X is a network-transparent protocol, there is no guarantee that two windows on the same desktop will even have access to a common file system! They might be running from servers in completely different cities, with no communication besides X.
I can't believe this kind of stuff needs to be explained to people/geeks
Hopefully, he was trying to be funny.
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No one foresaw anti-aliased text
Funny, but anti-aliased text was available on consumer PCs two years before the X project even started...
I really wish that delimiter was mandatory, or at the least, turned on by default instead of turned off by default
A "--" to indicate a comment is a poor method, anyhow. It wastes an additional screen line per post, which with 50 comments/page is a significant amount of extra whitespace.
It'd be better if sigs were marked by a different color/size/font. Smaller text against a beige background would make it easier to discern between the two kinds of content.
. I just tried to add my digital camera (Kodak DX4530)
Why does anyone, even Windows/Mac users, plug a digitcal camera directly to a computer? Isn't it much more convenient to just stick the memory card into your reader? That's less wires trailing around, less fumbling with camera buttons, and no battery-drain as you peruse the photos...
"shooting a man in the neck vs. hiring someone to do it," etc. They are both wrong. But they do carry different penalties and are seen differently in the eyes of the law.
What country are you from? I've never seen a modern law system that makes a distinction.
(Well, you can accidently shoot someone, but hiring a killer doesn't happen by mistake. So in that way, one of the crimes is treated more harshly that the other. But that's no big difference)
to require that his clients sign a contract with the exact same terms as current copyright law before starting the work, he would be just as well protected in a world without copyright law.
It'd have to be a pretty amazing contract to somehow bind other potential users of the image besides his initial customer...
Although with enough lawyermanship, it'd be possible to create a global network of binding contracts exactly duplicating the effect of copyright law... probably by using even more money than the government needs to enforce it today!
Of course when you're playing and get hit in the back you'll have to be careful to when you whip around so you don't get whiplash...
In reality, that's completely backwards. Users of this system will actually move their heads LESS than an average video-gamer- because then it would accidently shift their view.
This behavior may cause harm, however. People shift their weight for good reasons... forcing head stillness could rob couch-potatoes of their last slim remnant of physical exertion!
Just have to get over the $140 price hurdle first.
If you're serious, then do it yourself. Notice how the TrackIR advertisements say "More Hertz than a Webcam"? That's because normal webcams, plus a little software, are competitive to their product.
For $20 you can buy a USB webcam, and then $10 for Cam2Pan, or $0 for Freelook. Now all you need is a sticker on your forehead...
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100,000 * 1.5 gigs each is just too much over such a short time for anybody except an established file-serving company.
Or BitTorrent.
In fact, since there'll only be a 2-3 day window for making the downloads, its the PERFECT use-case for bittorrent. (And obviously, both you and Blizzard are aware of the BT protocol)
(if they work 9-5 that is)
Game programmers DON'T. They work 11-7, at the earliest. (More like 11-11, when the release is upcoming)
The whining, moaning, and outright hatred expressed in those places is a regular feature.
Uh, that's their JOB. Betas aren't a free sample for dedicated customers- they are "testers", and are supposed to express loud opinions about the product.
If they didn't whine, it'd be shirking responsibility.
Let's try googling for DVD burning linux free
That's a poorly-crafted search term. Too many words in the query means fewer good responses. In this case, the word "free" is basically redundant with "linux", and "burning" is just extra-syllables onto "burn" (try to use the root form of words whenever possible). "Linux DVD Burn" would've been better.
But regardless of that, the page of results given by your query is indeed useful. Two of the results go to forum discussions on LinuxQuestions.org, where a person has asked almost exactly the same question, and gotten almost exactly the same response ("Get K3B") as Asking Slashdot produced.
I guess the reason for no mention of k3b on freshmeat is more kde's braindamaged way of packaging applications
Wrong. Freshmeat has a page for k3b, independent of any larger "kde-tools" package. But you can't find it by searching by reasonable keywords like "DVD burn"- you have to already know that k3b is what you want to search for.
The problem's not the completeness of freshmeat, but the lack of a good way to browse/search.
Freshmeat.net exists and its platform and even license independent.
First, note that "k3b" is one of the least-informative program names imaginable. It provides ZERO descriptive data (aside from possibly the fact that it uses KDE). Nobody can be expected to guess that she wants "k3b" to make DVDs. So what happens if you search for a "DVD burner" on freshmeat.net?
Searching for "DVD burner" gives 0 hits. "DVD burn" gives 8 hits, but k3b isn't one of them. "cd burn" gives 7 hits, again without mentioning k3b.
Searching for "DVD" by itself produces 128 results, but again, k3b isn't in there. So apparently a freshmeat search is useless, unless you already knew the cryptic 3-character app name.
A google-search (such as for "linux dvd burn") would've faster and more fruitful. Rather sad that freshmeat isn't a good place to search for Free software...
Deckard obviously possessed superhuman strength and stamina, it wouldn't take long before people figured out that he was a replicant.
If it were possible to detect a replicant by measuring it's strength, then they wouldn't have needed all the subtle emotional-response testing.
That's the big scientific plot-hole in the thing... regardless of your strength, it's impossible to dangle Harrison Ford at arm's length in front of you, unless (a) you weigh 4 times as much as him, or (b) you have clawed feet to grip into the roof.
So replicants, as portrayed in that film, could've been detected merely by throwing them on a scale. (Or taking a sample of skin-cells and checking if it burns, etc). The only replicants that you'd NEED psychological testing for are those which have no exceptional physical abilities. And given that artificial animals routinely had serial-numbers burned into their cells, it makes no sense that Nexus 6 replicants would lack such distinguishing marks.
PS. Nothing in the movie proves that Deckard is weaker than the replicants. Just because he doesn't use strength doesn't mean he lacks it.
I've been a longtime Gnome user
:1" command. You then have two X servers running, on Alt-F7 and Alt-F8 keys. To specify which environment the 2nd server loads, do something like "startx /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/KDE -- :1" (picking a file from Gentoo stores X sessions)
Ugh. How could you stand it? Gnome was quite horrible until just recently. 3 little words: "File Open Dialog".
trying out Qingy (a GUI replacement for getty that let's you run different sessions on different virtual teminals, like Gnome on VT1, KDE on VT2, text console on VT3, all chosen at login time.)
You don't need additional software to test multiple desktop environments concurrently.
For example, you can run Gnome from the normal login screen, then push Control-Alt-F1 to get a text login, and run X from there with "startx --
That technique is especially useful if you want to run a fullscreen 3d program, like Unreal Tournament.
You think AlSadr and BinLaden love the infidel? He's shot and bombed the crap out of them.
Uh, no. CLINTON was the one who kept bombing bin Laden. Bush put a stop to that. He much preferred to go after an easier target like Saddam.
I've worked in all female environments and all male, and it *totally* depends on the males and females.
That's an amazing coincidence!
So you first worked all amoung women, and then after your gender-reassignment surgery took a job amoung all men?
a brand-new install, when you wanted to play with your shiny new desktop, and you had to wait for the damn index run to finish.
That is a good point HD-indexer authors should address. Following a new install, you naturally had no personal files yet- only the OS & bundled applications. But most users will only want their index to search files they've written or downloaded. That's an opportunity to save time.
I'm wondering why they're saying it's 'Google like'
Because, like Google, this feature will parse through various filetypes to index only human-readable text. Google can extract the text from HTML, PDF, ASCII, Powerpoint, DOC, and other files.
This will need to do that too. Otherwise searching for "font" would hit on every HTML file that changes a font, and not only those which have "font" in the body text.
Why else would we have directories?
That's still meaningless. Yes, one valid way to visualize a disk filesystem is with directories being a kind of file that links to other files.
But Google's trick is to classify the subject of a page not just by it's own content, but by the links that point to it- on the theory that 3rd parties are less likely to mislead about a page's true subject.
That just doesn't map to a single-user PC. Searching for file according to the directory they come under is barely different from hunting for them manually.
Network transparency is why I said "URL", not "filename".
What kind of URL were you proposing, then? I assumed "file://" at first. But if you claim it'll be network transparent, then "http://" comes closer- but still isn't good enough. For starters, you'd need to install webserver capability in each X applcation with a Copy command...
And even so, one can't be certain that two X applications on different computers will be able to reach each other by hostname, or even ip address.
Code reuse is good, but it could be accomplished in a better way than what you suggest.
If the user selects an image or anything that is not obviously a text string, then it should write that data to a temp file, and the copy should be the URL of that text file. And then when they paste it, the recieving program inserts that file,
And kill network transparency while you're at it?
Today I can ssh to two remote computers, run X apps on each one, and C&P data between them. Your proposal will break that ability, either completely, or only partially (in ways that are inconsistent to the end user).
A better approach:
That requires one extra layer of indirection in the file i/o code, but allows code reuse while maintaining network transparency. (Naturally, in the common case that both applications are on PC (a) and the X server is on PC (b), a form of short-circuiting should take place to avoid excessive network traffic)
The attraction is that a clipboard is about a BILLION times faster and easier to use than juggling files, if all you want to do is move something from app A to app B.
Furthermore, since X is a network-transparent protocol, there is no guarantee that two windows on the same desktop will even have access to a common file system! They might be running from servers in completely different cities, with no communication besides X.
I can't believe this kind of stuff needs to be explained to people/geeks
Hopefully, he was trying to be funny.
No one foresaw anti-aliased text
Funny, but anti-aliased text was available on consumer PCs two years before the X project even started...
I really wish that delimiter was mandatory, or at the least, turned on by default instead of turned off by default
A "--" to indicate a comment is a poor method, anyhow. It wastes an additional screen line per post, which with 50 comments/page is a significant amount of extra whitespace.
It'd be better if sigs were marked by a different color/size/font. Smaller text against a beige background would make it easier to discern between the two kinds of content.
. I just tried to add my digital camera (Kodak DX4530)
Why does anyone, even Windows/Mac users, plug a digitcal camera directly to a computer? Isn't it much more convenient to just stick the memory card into your reader? That's less wires trailing around, less fumbling with camera buttons, and no battery-drain as you peruse the photos...
"shooting a man in the neck vs. hiring someone to do it," etc. They are both wrong. But they do carry different penalties and are seen differently in the eyes of the law.
What country are you from? I've never seen a modern law system that makes a distinction.
(Well, you can accidently shoot someone, but hiring a killer doesn't happen by mistake. So in that way, one of the crimes is treated more harshly that the other. But that's no big difference)
And what you're taking away is the money they should have received for you purchasing their product.
So... Linus is stealing money from Bill Gates.
Can you come up with a justification that won't be laughed at by all of Slashdot?
Lines like that annoy me. Even though it does me no physical or financial harm, I'd still like you to never post tripe like that again.
Please explain how then continuing against my wishes is not immoral.
to require that his clients sign a contract with the exact same terms as current copyright law before starting the work, he would be just as well protected in a world without copyright law.
It'd have to be a pretty amazing contract to somehow bind other potential users of the image besides his initial customer...
Although with enough lawyermanship, it'd be possible to create a global network of binding contracts exactly duplicating the effect of copyright law... probably by using even more money than the government needs to enforce it today!
Of course when you're playing and get hit in the back you'll have to be careful to when you whip around so you don't get whiplash...
In reality, that's completely backwards. Users of this system will actually move their heads LESS than an average video-gamer- because then it would accidently shift their view.
This behavior may cause harm, however. People shift their weight for good reasons... forcing head stillness could rob couch-potatoes of their last slim remnant of physical exertion!
Just have to get over the $140 price hurdle first.
If you're serious, then do it yourself. Notice how the TrackIR advertisements say "More Hertz than a Webcam"? That's because normal webcams, plus a little software, are competitive to their product.
For $20 you can buy a USB webcam, and then $10 for Cam2Pan, or $0 for Freelook. Now all you need is a sticker on your forehead...