Hello? Cassette tapes. They don't make them anymore, really, but back when they did, I'd regularly see brand new cassettes on sale for about $8, CD of the exact same music, $16.
Why the hell is that? CDs are cheaper to manufacture! They should be cheaper to buy, as well.
In the past, while typing something into one application when suddenly your instant messenger offered a chat request from your friend, your words would be typed into the chat window. Imagine if you were typing your password at the time. This should no longer happen in GNOME 2.10.
THANK GOD. Maybe now I'll actually be able to use metacity instead of replacing it with xfwm4.
Hmmm, well that seems to be the only change that I care about. I can happily wait for this to appear in (say) Fedora Core 4, no rush to upgrade here.
(How can you grab anywhere with the alt key to move the window if grabbing a quadrant resizes it?)
That was probably just a thinko on his part. I don't know exactly how this works in other window managers, but in xfwm4 (xfce's window manager), alt+left drag moves the window, alt+right drag resizes whichever corner of the window was closest to the mouse cursor (eg, what quadrant your cursor was in at the time), and alt+middle click lowers the window to reveal windows behind it. I know this isn't unique to xfwm4, it's a convention shared across many window managers in some form or another (many allow you to configure it, as well).
This kind of thing is very unintuitive and frankly, most users are not the two fisted power user that you are.
This statement is just ignorant. Just because most people won't realize that those features are there and hence never use them, doesn't mean you have to remove those features so that other people can't use them. By taking out something like that, you just make the UI worse for various power users without making it any better for anybody else (think of it this way: if they had to pay somebody to take those features out, it woudl have cost them money, and the result would be that the UI had either not changed or gotten worse for users. Does that sound like a wise investment? To pay money to make things worse?).... by any number of third party utilities.
Because we all know, when I'm alt+dragging a window, I want a big obnoxious popup shareware reminder to ask me to pay $5 for the ability to alt+drag my windows.
Then you're self-employed, which even removes the complication of somebody dumber than you telling you what to do.
What, your clients don't tell you what to do? How do you know what they're paying you for?
No, the only way you can make a living without being told what to do by people dumber than you is to buy a large printing press and enter the counterfeiting business.
Uh, I'm guessing you have no idea about the history behind the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir because, if you did, you'd know it's not that simple.
What? A member of the highly sophisticated Slashdot readership oversimplifying the issues? Impossible!
if the government had a good way of making money off of Marijuna sales without the health issues and health costs associated with it, it would be legal.
Gee, if only there was some other major drug consumed in the form of a cigarette that we could use as an example... oh, wait...
There are so many things that are illegal, in which the illegalization of that thing causes more problems than the thing itself (eg, the black market creates crime surrounding that substance). As far as I'm concerned, all of these things would be better served by legalizing them, and taxing them a lot. Having them legalized would make them safer to produce* and purchase**, and the tax money would go partly to hospitals to pay for the health issues caused, and partly to mass propaganda campaigns to explain why these substances are so bad.
(* an illegal drug produced in some guy's basement is dangerous; legalizing it and producing it in a lab with safety regulations would produce a much safer final product, less impurities, etc).
(** a drug deal that goes bad can get you shot; you're in much less danger buying stuff over the counter from a pharmacy...).
Seriously, alcohol prohibition didn't work, why does anybody think drug prohibition does? All these "illegal drugs" and their users should be treated like a public health epidemic, not a bunch of criminals.
Prohibition is wasteful at every step. First it costs money for police to enforce the prohibition (so police officers are distracted from more important crimes like murder or assault), then otherwise harmless people's lives are ruined with criminal records, then jails are clogged with these people. It's just a huge waste of everybody's time and money, and doesn't even solve the original problem in the first place! If somebody is addicted to an illegal drug, throwing them in prison doesn't cure their addiction. These addicts should be helped, not condemned.
That's great. Video games that simulate shooting are good at teaching people to shoot. It doesn't, however, cause people to go on killing sprees for no reason.
The really secret stuff is done by the SIGINT folks... they're pretty much just a bunch of crypto-geeks who never get their hands dirty (they leave HUMINT to the CIA).
Funny, I would have thought "getting your hands dirty" would have been called SIGKILL...
As for people talking about prior art, that's patents. There's no such thing for trademark or copyright. Try again.
Thank you, thank you! The fact that people have them all confused and muddled in their minds is a testament to how harmful the term "Intellectual Property" is.
Having never heard of Rogers Video I'm sure their miniscule presence in the rental market...
Ahhhh, you must be American.;)
Very unscientific, but a preliminary investigation shows that Rogers Video has 12 locations in my city, while Blockbuster has 19. While Blockbuster has more locations, Rogers isn't unheard of.
If it was a model, someone could move your arm around and, if you weren't looking, you'd have no idea which way it was pointing, which is clearly not the case.
Actually, it clearly is the case. What the other poster says about it being a model which uses "feeling" to build the model is correct.
In Jr. High, a friend of mine had lost all feeling in his right hand in a childhood accident, we used to gang up on him while he was doing homework, somebody would distract him from the left, then we'd steal the pen out of his hand from the right. He'd keep on "writing", not knowing that he had no pen, then he'd look down at a blank page and freak out because he'd have to do it all over again;) -- his mental model told him where his hand & pen were, without the feedback of being able to feel them, it became out of sync with reality.
Who cares about the icon printed on the key, when the same screenshot you reference clearly depicts Windows running on the screen? Surely that is a much more heinous crime?
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Hello? Cassette tapes. They don't make them anymore, really, but back when they did, I'd regularly see brand new cassettes on sale for about $8, CD of the exact same music, $16.
Why the hell is that? CDs are cheaper to manufacture! They should be cheaper to buy, as well.
THANK GOD. Maybe now I'll actually be able to use metacity instead of replacing it with xfwm4.
Hmmm, well that seems to be the only change that I care about. I can happily wait for this to appear in (say) Fedora Core 4, no rush to upgrade here.
Nice troll, very subtle...
You see, people... a venture capitalist wouldn't get very far if it's goal was to spend as little money as possible...
(How can you grab anywhere with the alt key to move the window if grabbing a quadrant resizes it?)
... by any number of third party utilities.
That was probably just a thinko on his part. I don't know exactly how this works in other window managers, but in xfwm4 (xfce's window manager), alt+left drag moves the window, alt+right drag resizes whichever corner of the window was closest to the mouse cursor (eg, what quadrant your cursor was in at the time), and alt+middle click lowers the window to reveal windows behind it. I know this isn't unique to xfwm4, it's a convention shared across many window managers in some form or another (many allow you to configure it, as well).
This kind of thing is very unintuitive and frankly, most users are not the two fisted power user that you are.
This statement is just ignorant. Just because most people won't realize that those features are there and hence never use them, doesn't mean you have to remove those features so that other people can't use them. By taking out something like that, you just make the UI worse for various power users without making it any better for anybody else (think of it this way: if they had to pay somebody to take those features out, it woudl have cost them money, and the result would be that the UI had either not changed or gotten worse for users. Does that sound like a wise investment? To pay money to make things worse?).
Because we all know, when I'm alt+dragging a window, I want a big obnoxious popup shareware reminder to ask me to pay $5 for the ability to alt+drag my windows.
Whatever for?
Oh, I see...
(suck my balls, slashdot lameness filter)
Then you're self-employed, which even removes the complication of somebody dumber than you telling you what to do.
What, your clients don't tell you what to do? How do you know what they're paying you for?
No, the only way you can make a living without being told what to do by people dumber than you is to buy a large printing press and enter the counterfeiting business.
That's the glory of capitalism. You're riding in the most cost-efficient, most highly technologically advanced rocket they could build!
Uh, I'm guessing you have no idea about the history behind the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir because, if you did, you'd know it's not that simple.
What? A member of the highly sophisticated Slashdot readership oversimplifying the issues? Impossible!
So, what you're saying is that only fools use open source?
Point taken.
if the government had a good way of making money off of Marijuna sales without the health issues and health costs associated with it, it would be legal.
Gee, if only there was some other major drug consumed in the form of a cigarette that we could use as an example... oh, wait...
There are so many things that are illegal, in which the illegalization of that thing causes more problems than the thing itself (eg, the black market creates crime surrounding that substance). As far as I'm concerned, all of these things would be better served by legalizing them, and taxing them a lot. Having them legalized would make them safer to produce* and purchase**, and the tax money would go partly to hospitals to pay for the health issues caused, and partly to mass propaganda campaigns to explain why these substances are so bad.
(* an illegal drug produced in some guy's basement is dangerous; legalizing it and producing it in a lab with safety regulations would produce a much safer final product, less impurities, etc).
(** a drug deal that goes bad can get you shot; you're in much less danger buying stuff over the counter from a pharmacy...).
Seriously, alcohol prohibition didn't work, why does anybody think drug prohibition does? All these "illegal drugs" and their users should be treated like a public health epidemic, not a bunch of criminals.
Prohibition is wasteful at every step. First it costs money for police to enforce the prohibition (so police officers are distracted from more important crimes like murder or assault), then otherwise harmless people's lives are ruined with criminal records, then jails are clogged with these people. It's just a huge waste of everybody's time and money, and doesn't even solve the original problem in the first place! If somebody is addicted to an illegal drug, throwing them in prison doesn't cure their addiction. These addicts should be helped, not condemned.
Clearly DNS is the only acceptable solution to the spam problem.
Praise Gord!
With names like ECDH, ECMQV, and ECDSA, the NSA must be taking naming cues from Mxyzptlk.
Frankly, I don't think these algorithms will really catch on, their names aren't near as sexy as "RSA" or "SHA".
I've been a happy fedora user since FC1 was released, and never understood why everybody bitches about Red Hat.
That's great. Video games that simulate shooting are good at teaching people to shoot. It doesn't, however, cause people to go on killing sprees for no reason.
The really secret stuff is done by the SIGINT folks ... they're pretty much just a bunch of crypto-geeks who never get their hands dirty (they leave HUMINT to the CIA).
Funny, I would have thought "getting your hands dirty" would have been called SIGKILL...
funniest thing I've read all day.
I don't think that's really any better... just ask Torvalds how much he likes having Cox on him...
Watch this demo and maybe you'll understand. ;)
As for people talking about prior art, that's patents. There's no such thing for trademark or copyright. Try again.
Thank you, thank you! The fact that people have them all confused and muddled in their minds is a testament to how harmful the term "Intellectual Property" is.
Yeah, oops. Such is the folly of posting before reading everything. I just wanted to accuse the guy of being American ;)
Think of the children! ... in Japan!
Having never heard of Rogers Video I'm sure their miniscule presence in the rental market...
;)
Ahhhh, you must be American.
Very unscientific, but a preliminary investigation shows that Rogers Video has 12 locations in my city, while Blockbuster has 19. While Blockbuster has more locations, Rogers isn't unheard of.
If it was a model, someone could move your arm around and, if you weren't looking, you'd have no idea which way it was pointing, which is clearly not the case.
;) -- his mental model told him where his hand & pen were, without the feedback of being able to feel them, it became out of sync with reality.
Actually, it clearly is the case. What the other poster says about it being a model which uses "feeling" to build the model is correct.
In Jr. High, a friend of mine had lost all feeling in his right hand in a childhood accident, we used to gang up on him while he was doing homework, somebody would distract him from the left, then we'd steal the pen out of his hand from the right. He'd keep on "writing", not knowing that he had no pen, then he'd look down at a blank page and freak out because he'd have to do it all over again
Who cares about the icon printed on the key, when the same screenshot you reference clearly depicts Windows running on the screen? Surely that is a much more heinous crime?