CentOS may be slogging away slowly to bring out CentOS 6, but Scientific Linux 6 went live yesterday, and their pre-releases have been easily accessible to anyone since December.
> Care to rephrase that? The US Constitution is a law. Ditto the State-level constitutions.
Bullshit. The Constitution lays out the rights of the people, puts limits to federal power, and sets up the Federal legislative structure to MAKE laws, the Federal executive structure to enforce them, and the Federal judiciary structure to judge them. It is NOT itself a law.
Of passing interest, I bought an HP 2133 pretty close to the day it came out (long before they started shitifying the concept). It feels significantly more solid in almost every way than my Thinkpad X301 or any Macbooks I have handled in the store. On the other hand, I still use the X301 daily, but haven't turned on the 2133 in quite a while. Something about that horrible toy processor. But the hardware is absolutely first class.
If you don't give a shit, you can use a shitty laptop, just like you are probably fine with a shitty car, a shitty ball point pen, a shitty flashlight, and a shitty TV.
An HP that is a Thinkpad clone? I doubt it very much. It's not a thinkpad clone unless it has a trackpoint, matte screen, quality keyboard, and high quality construction.
Largely good points, but the first one is bull. Not all icons represent applications. What do you think the folder icon represents?
The recycling bin is wrong for several reasons:
- It is an icon, and all icons except this one represent applications. It breaks the metaphor. - The concept of an undelete-store has some merit, but it absolutely needs to have a limited lifetime for its content. - It is hard to find as it has no fixed location. And it eats icon space without good reason. - Because it has no fixed position, the notion of drag&drop to it is fundamentally broken. Delete has to be a fixed gesture or command, not a variable one, as it is a unique operation. In addition, having it as an icon is accident-prone.
So in other words it's not. In KDE or Gnome you can do those things you admit you cannot in Windows. Open/view files, descend into directories, make copies, etc. The trashcan is just a folder like any other folder; its contents have the same context menu with one addition: restore.
Sorry to say, the Windows recycle bin sounds like an inferior design to me.
Wait, it's not? I open mine and I get an explorer list of everything in it. Sure, I can't view the actual files, or go into subdirectories, without restoring them. But I can sort by date modified, size, date deleted, container type, name, or location - and those are just the default columns.
No, actually it is plainly NOT a relic of times when it cost serious money to make copies. Sheesh. That would imply copyrights were LESS necessary now than they were then, because... why, exactly? It is more practical to copy now than it was then. But obviously copyrights were considered necessary then, even given the expense and trouble of copying.
The above is pure logic and assumes that we want authors to be paid per copy. Whether THAT is what we should want is an entirely separate question. Entirely.
[Copyrights are] a relic of an age where making mass numbers of copies required expensive industrial equipment.
So, in other words, it ISN'T infinite, then. It is strictly limited by how many times you can serially lend out each copy of the book before it wears out, and by how many copies the library buys. With electronic replication, it really is essentially infinite. You're not limited to serial lending; it can be parallel without limit. And the library only has to buy one copy. So no, electronic is not ANYTHING like physical.
Physical libraries already lend to an "infinite" number of people, where "infinite" is a number limited only by the book's popularity, durability and the length of time the book is held by each reader
Dude; you are behind the times. HDFuryII got pulled; it is no longer sold in the US and Canada, the company has joined the HDCP group, and their new products will only work with non-HDCP sources.
Enjoy your corrupt government in collusion with corrupt big business.
Seconded. Seeing the movie Watchmen as excellent is in no way related to having a comic book reader intellect. It is well acted, explores interesting themes, and is not dumbed down or childishly saccharine.
Oh yeah? Are they really gung ho to reboot a monstrosity with dozens of GB of RAM, many terabytes of disk, and dozens of virtual machines it it? Because it can easily take 15-30 minutes to get the shole shebang fully back up.
NT 3.51 was much more rugged than 4.0. It almost never fell over. 4.0 introduced the shell, and the display subsystem running at full privilege level - and desktop freezeups. On the other side, 3.1 had just plain too many bugs to be reliable.
Rebooting Unix is still the last resort. Or init 1, which amounts to almost the same thing. I don't know many Unix systems that are really honest to god limited to a single user, and even these may be sharing file, printer, etc resources that somebody is depending on.
Like you, I hate rebooting my personal desktop or laptop linux. Or restarting X, which is almost as bad as you lose all your desktop state. It's not just hardware or sloppiness that forces it, though. Almost weekly, updates show up that will trash your desktop before long if you don't at least restart X, or preferably do a full reboot.
It's a bit tedious to keep pointing this out, but actually nothing FORCES stupid people talking to other stupid people to say "forward slash." "Slash" IS "forward slash". "Backslash" is always "backslash." There is no reason for confusion, mental defects such as dyslexia aside.
At first the concept of gigabit wireless made me laugh, knowing that 99% of the devices could not possibly process one billion bytes per second, no matter what the hardware bandwidth was. Then, remembering that I never got more than 10% of theoretical throughput on a GOOD day over 802.11b, g, and draft n, I realized this is a Good Thing after all. Maybe we will get 50-100 actual megabits over this so-called gigabit link, and that would be a vast improvement over what we have had to date.
How about we dress their lawyers in suits of armor and let them fight to the death in gladiatorial combat, winner takes all!!! At least it would be more entertaining than all these pointless legal lawsuits that always end in transferring of "shut the hell up" money from side to the other.
No armor! Send them out into the arena naked and unarmed and have lions rip them all apart.
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And how big of a twit do you have to be completely misinterpret the observations and make completely off topic charges?
CentOS may be slogging away slowly to bring out CentOS 6, but Scientific Linux 6 went live yesterday, and their pre-releases have been easily accessible to anyone since December.
Anybody can whoosh anything, but they get to look like stupid asses if it's not clear to anybody what they're whooshing.
>>>"Freedom of Speech" isn't a law.
> Care to rephrase that? The US Constitution is a law. Ditto the State-level constitutions.
Bullshit. The Constitution lays out the rights of the people, puts limits to federal power, and sets up the Federal legislative structure to MAKE laws, the Federal executive structure to enforce them, and the Federal judiciary structure to judge them. It is NOT itself a law.
Bullshit. Why am I looking at the Mac Mini on apple.com right now and under Tech Specs it says "Included software: Mac OS X Snow Leopard?"
Of passing interest, I bought an HP 2133 pretty close to the day it came out (long before they started shitifying the concept). It feels significantly more solid in almost every way than my Thinkpad X301 or any Macbooks I have handled in the store. On the other hand, I still use the X301 daily, but haven't turned on the 2133 in quite a while. Something about that horrible toy processor. But the hardware is absolutely first class.
If you don't give a shit, you can use a shitty laptop, just like you are probably fine with a shitty car, a shitty ball point pen, a shitty flashlight, and a shitty TV.
To more discriminating users, it does matter.
An HP that is a Thinkpad clone? I doubt it very much. It's not a thinkpad clone unless it has a trackpoint, matte screen, quality keyboard, and high quality construction.
Largely good points, but the first one is bull. Not all icons represent applications. What do you think the folder icon represents?
So in other words it's not. In KDE or Gnome you can do those things you admit you cannot in Windows. Open/view files, descend into directories, make copies, etc. The trashcan is just a folder like any other folder; its contents have the same context menu with one addition: restore.
Sorry to say, the Windows recycle bin sounds like an inferior design to me.
Score for logic: 0.
Yes, the copyright system has become corrupted, I happen to agree. This has no bearing whatsoever on the logical absurdity of the poster'c comment.
No, actually it is plainly NOT a relic of times when it cost serious money to make copies. Sheesh. That would imply copyrights were LESS necessary now than they were then, because ... why, exactly? It is more practical to copy now than it was then. But obviously copyrights were considered necessary then, even given the expense and trouble of copying.
The above is pure logic and assumes that we want authors to be paid per copy. Whether THAT is what we should want is an entirely separate question. Entirely.
So, in other words, it ISN'T infinite, then. It is strictly limited by how many times you can serially lend out each copy of the book before it wears out, and by how many copies the library buys. With electronic replication, it really is essentially infinite. You're not limited to serial lending; it can be parallel without limit. And the library only has to buy one copy. So no, electronic is not ANYTHING like physical.
Dude; you are behind the times. HDFuryII got pulled; it is no longer sold in the US and Canada, the company has joined the HDCP group, and their new products will only work with non-HDCP sources.
Enjoy your corrupt government in collusion with corrupt big business.
Seconded. Seeing the movie Watchmen as excellent is in no way related to having a comic book reader intellect. It is well acted, explores interesting themes, and is not dumbed down or childishly saccharine.
Oh yeah? Are they really gung ho to reboot a monstrosity with dozens of GB of RAM, many terabytes of disk, and dozens of virtual machines it it? Because it can easily take 15-30 minutes to get the shole shebang fully back up.
NT 3.51 was much more rugged than 4.0. It almost never fell over. 4.0 introduced the shell, and the display subsystem running at full privilege level - and desktop freezeups. On the other side, 3.1 had just plain too many bugs to be reliable.
Rebooting Unix is still the last resort. Or init 1, which amounts to almost the same thing. I don't know many Unix systems that are really honest to god limited to a single user, and even these may be sharing file, printer, etc resources that somebody is depending on.
Like you, I hate rebooting my personal desktop or laptop linux. Or restarting X, which is almost as bad as you lose all your desktop state. It's not just hardware or sloppiness that forces it, though. Almost weekly, updates show up that will trash your desktop before long if you don't at least restart X, or preferably do a full reboot.
It's a bit tedious to keep pointing this out, but actually nothing FORCES stupid people talking to other stupid people to say "forward slash." "Slash" IS "forward slash". "Backslash" is always "backslash." There is no reason for confusion, mental defects such as dyslexia aside.
It's not a side effect, it's the INTENDED effect.
Isn't throwing an error a side-effect?
Why the fuck doesn't google just buy the MPAA and disband it?
At first the concept of gigabit wireless made me laugh, knowing that 99% of the devices could not possibly process one billion bytes per second, no matter what the hardware bandwidth was. Then, remembering that I never got more than 10% of theoretical throughput on a GOOD day over 802.11b, g, and draft n, I realized this is a Good Thing after all. Maybe we will get 50-100 actual megabits over this so-called gigabit link, and that would be a vast improvement over what we have had to date.
And what is it about asking for the IP address of those who VIEWED it?
"Gee, this Tor guy is really active!"
How about we dress their lawyers in suits of armor and let them fight to the death in gladiatorial combat, winner takes all!!! At least it would be more entertaining than all these pointless legal lawsuits that always end in transferring of "shut the hell up" money from side to the other.
No armor! Send them out into the arena naked and unarmed and have lions rip them all apart.
Erm ... that's 22 THOUSAND miles!