Let's not. Instead, let's remember that this is a car we're driving, and not a mobile party room. A car with more kinetic energy than a bullet.
We've only been driving cars for 100 years. How much longer do you think we're actually going to have to pay attention to what's happening on the road?
I'm going to be pissed in a few years when I get to work late after being stuck in traffic, and get on Slashdot to see that in Japan, people go to work in mobile party rooms.
A large aspect of designing software for normal people is providing sane defaults. Sure, it wouldn't hurt to have a GUI to change mouse cursors, but I don't think it's a glaring omission.
There's always gcursor, which I hear might be integrated into the theme dialog at some point. But honestly, how many normal users actually change their mouse cursors?
But could we please call Ahead Software by their name instead of calling the company Nero?
Look at the bottom of http://www.nero.com/. "Nero AG / Nero Inc." I'm guessing they incorporated under the Nero name as well when they realized that not many people actually know the company name.
What most people don't seem to realize is that this is a bad thing for commercial software on Linux. Nero's venture will fail, and other companies will be discouraged by it.
Utility applications like CD burning programs aren't hard to replicate, as there are a certain set of features that need to be implemented to satisfy almost all users. Most people need to burn audio and data CDs, and an emerging need is burning home movies onto DVDs. The first two have already been done by open source programs, and the third will be done eventually. From what I hear, Nero has more features that make it useful, but I don't think it provides enough marginal utility to be worth $100. Nero has succeeded in the Windows world largely due to their distributon deals with OEMs. However, their Linux product will not be profitable. The Linux version doesn't even have the extra features that make the Windows version attractive, but assuming that it eventually does, they won't be worth $100 to most people. The Linux version won't get them any extra distribution, and Linux users who buy CD burners already pay Nero money anyway. The extra effort spent on a Linux port won't be worth it, and they'll soon figure that out.
There is room for commercial software on Linux, but it has to be innovative software to succeed. There has to be something that the company continues to provide that hasn't been replicated by the eventual open source implementation of their product. Competing with free is possible, but not in Nero's case. Competing with Free is even harder.
In Gaim, go to Tools -> Preferences and enable the Message Notification plugin in the Plugins section of the dialog. Select it, and check the "Set window manager "URGENT" hint" box. I don't have Gnome 2.10 yet, so I don't know what it actually does, but if Metacity and the panel support the URGENT hint, that should do what you want.
I the the slashdot article you're referencing is this one, on February 28. The only earlier KDE beta announcement was on February 9. Meanwhile, there have been Ubuntu Live CDs of Gnome development versions since at least January 27. Live CDs aren't a feature of KDE or Gnome. They're a pretty common concept, and it's not that big of a leap to use them for development versions. No one cares who did it first.
This is the official client! Jeez, how does it "steal" them.
It's polite to ask first. Sometimes people already have a client that they want to keep as their default, but they want to try a new program. It shouldn't steal the file associations unless told to do so.
It is not as if the phone will be running lots of insecure services by default.
Uh... all communication coming into the phone requires a service to receive it. Bluetooth, MMS, and the calls themselves all need something to receive them. A communications device is going to be insecure by nature unless great effort is taken to secure it. The reason this hasn't been a problem until now is because people couldn't remotely control or transfer data (other than plain text and the calls themselves) to and from their phones like they can now. Every new remote feature brings the possibility of a remote vulnerability. With great power comes great responsibility... or something like that.
Reading the linked claim made me want to cry. Based on the reasons they say Apple is infringing on their patent, they must have patented password protection. Or at least password protection over the internet. Novel. The article's worth reading though. It made me giggle and tear up at the same time. Not many things do that.
p.s. if new users would keep comming with this rate, people would have to increase their sex activity just to provide new linux users in about 20 years.
No one discounts Netscape's contributions, but when was the last time you celebrated the birthday of a dead person? Or more accurately, when was the last time you celebrated the birthday of a person who was purchased and assimilated into someone else? I'm guessing never, but I could be wrong...
Just because they're end users doesn't mean they should change the meaning of words. When dealing with computers, the definition of the word applicable to computers is the one that should be used.
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
mouse (mous) pronunciation
n., pl. mice (ms).
1.
1. Any of numerous small rodents of the families Muridae and Cricetidae, such as the common house mouse (Mus musculus), characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail.
2. Any of various similar or related animals, such as the jumping mouse, the vole, or the jerboa.
2. A cowardly or timid person.
3. Informal. A discolored swelling under the eye caused by a blow; a black eye.
4. pl. mice or mouses (mous'z). Computer Science. A hand-held, button-activated input device that when rolled along a flat surface directs an indicator to move correspondingly about a computer screen, allowing the operator to move the indicator freely, as to select operations or manipulate text or graphics.
If a mouse "end user" ignored the computer science definition just because he wasn't a computer scientist, then his kid is going to be a bit disappointed to find out that his new pet is made out of plastic.
Many end users that "internet" means the blue 'e' on their desktop. They're wrong. Must this argument continue?
It almost certainly has the most commonly accepted definition of the word "emulator" in mainstream society.
The other definitions were supposed to be the commonly accepted definitions of the word in mainstream society. The entry in question said "Computer Science" next to it, which means it should define the way the term is used in Computer Science. And I take back what I said about the difference being trivial: if both steps of the process I described in my earlier post are referred to as the same thing, you can't distinguish between the two. Luckily, computer scientists have narrowed the scope of certain words when used in their field.
MS Programmer 1: Hey, for shits and giggles we can disable Windows Update for WINE users by checking for a registry key! MS Programmer 2: But what if legitimate users have the key in their registries for some reason? They wouldn't get updates, and that'd be a huge security hole. Isn't security more important than shits and giggles?
I think this article tells you how that conversation ended.
Sorry, but that third definition clearly applies. WINE most certainly is an emulator.
Or, [gasp!] the dictionary could be wrong! That never happens! In the realm of computers, the "modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data" involve translating foreign instructions to native ones. WINE doesn't translate anything. It's merely an implementation of the Win32 API. It does the same thing (well they aim to at least) that Microsoft's Win32 libraries do when given a program to run. If you wanted to run an OSX program on Linux x86, you'd need to translate the machine code to instructions that will run on native hardware, then implement the API used. The first step is PowerPC emulator: what the American Heritage Dictionary should have defined, but failed to.
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Let's not. Instead, let's remember that this is a car we're driving, and not a mobile party room. A car with more kinetic energy than a bullet.
We've only been driving cars for 100 years. How much longer do you think we're actually going to have to pay attention to what's happening on the road?
I'm going to be pissed in a few years when I get to work late after being stuck in traffic, and get on Slashdot to see that in Japan, people go to work in mobile party rooms.
Oops. I pasted the wrong link. Gcursor is here: http://qballcow.nl/?s=14
If you're on Slashdot, you're not a normal user.
A large aspect of designing software for normal people is providing sane defaults. Sure, it wouldn't hurt to have a GUI to change mouse cursors, but I don't think it's a glaring omission.
There's always gcursor, which I hear might be integrated into the theme dialog at some point. But honestly, how many normal users actually change their mouse cursors?
But could we please call Ahead Software by their name instead of calling the company Nero?
Look at the bottom of http://www.nero.com/. "Nero AG / Nero Inc." I'm guessing they incorporated under the Nero name as well when they realized that not many people actually know the company name.
What most people don't seem to realize is that this is a bad thing for commercial software on Linux. Nero's venture will fail, and other companies will be discouraged by it.
Utility applications like CD burning programs aren't hard to replicate, as there are a certain set of features that need to be implemented to satisfy almost all users. Most people need to burn audio and data CDs, and an emerging need is burning home movies onto DVDs. The first two have already been done by open source programs, and the third will be done eventually. From what I hear, Nero has more features that make it useful, but I don't think it provides enough marginal utility to be worth $100. Nero has succeeded in the Windows world largely due to their distributon deals with OEMs. However, their Linux product will not be profitable. The Linux version doesn't even have the extra features that make the Windows version attractive, but assuming that it eventually does, they won't be worth $100 to most people. The Linux version won't get them any extra distribution, and Linux users who buy CD burners already pay Nero money anyway. The extra effort spent on a Linux port won't be worth it, and they'll soon figure that out.
There is room for commercial software on Linux, but it has to be innovative software to succeed. There has to be something that the company continues to provide that hasn't been replicated by the eventual open source implementation of their product. Competing with free is possible, but not in Nero's case. Competing with Free is even harder.
In Gaim, go to Tools -> Preferences and enable the Message Notification plugin in the Plugins section of the dialog. Select it, and check the "Set window manager "URGENT" hint" box. I don't have Gnome 2.10 yet, so I don't know what it actually does, but if Metacity and the panel support the URGENT hint, that should do what you want.
Getting modded funny when you're serious is the ultimate bitch slap.
I the the slashdot article you're referencing is this one, on February 28. The only earlier KDE beta announcement was on February 9. Meanwhile, there have been Ubuntu Live CDs of Gnome development versions since at least January 27. Live CDs aren't a feature of KDE or Gnome. They're a pretty common concept, and it's not that big of a leap to use them for development versions. No one cares who did it first.
This is the official client! Jeez, how does it "steal" them.
It's polite to ask first. Sometimes people already have a client that they want to keep as their default, but they want to try a new program. It shouldn't steal the file associations unless told to do so.
If you're that crazy about about a lightweight desktop, you should probably be aiming for Encompass.
Galeon and Epiphany.
Few things annoy me more than people who will not watch a movie simply because they "have to read" it.
People watch movies to be entertained. If they don't want to read subtitles, that's their deal. It's their free time.
Few things annoy me more than self-righteous people.
It is not as if the phone will be running lots of insecure services by default.
Uh... all communication coming into the phone requires a service to receive it. Bluetooth, MMS, and the calls themselves all need something to receive them. A communications device is going to be insecure by nature unless great effort is taken to secure it. The reason this hasn't been a problem until now is because people couldn't remotely control or transfer data (other than plain text and the calls themselves) to and from their phones like they can now. Every new remote feature brings the possibility of a remote vulnerability. With great power comes great responsibility... or something like that.
Reading the linked claim made me want to cry. Based on the reasons they say Apple is infringing on their patent, they must have patented password protection. Or at least password protection over the internet. Novel. The article's worth reading though. It made me giggle and tear up at the same time. Not many things do that.
p.s. if new users would keep comming with this rate, people would have to increase their sex activity just to provide new linux users in about 20 years.
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We know. That was our plan from the beginning.
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hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
I read an article about this earlier today that focused on the presence notification that AOL has integrated with Outlook. Apparently this is new to the Windows world, but I've had presence notification for a while now, along with a framework to integrate it into other applications, such as Beagle. Looks like promising stuff.
It doesn't sync your iTunes collection, you stream from the server using iTunes' built-in sharing.
No one discounts Netscape's contributions, but when was the last time you celebrated the birthday of a dead person? Or more accurately, when was the last time you celebrated the birthday of a person who was purchased and assimilated into someone else? I'm guessing never, but I could be wrong...
If you named all the bases in their own base, they'd all be base-10.
Just because they're end users doesn't mean they should change the meaning of words. When dealing with computers, the definition of the word applicable to computers is the one that should be used.
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
mouse (mous) pronunciation
n., pl. mice (ms).
1.
1. Any of numerous small rodents of the families Muridae and Cricetidae, such as the common house mouse (Mus musculus), characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, and a long naked or almost hairless tail.
2. Any of various similar or related animals, such as the jumping mouse, the vole, or the jerboa.
2. A cowardly or timid person.
3. Informal. A discolored swelling under the eye caused by a blow; a black eye.
4. pl. mice or mouses (mous'z). Computer Science. A hand-held, button-activated input device that when rolled along a flat surface directs an indicator to move correspondingly about a computer screen, allowing the operator to move the indicator freely, as to select operations or manipulate text or graphics.
If a mouse "end user" ignored the computer science definition just because he wasn't a computer scientist, then his kid is going to be a bit disappointed to find out that his new pet is made out of plastic.
Many end users that "internet" means the blue 'e' on their desktop. They're wrong. Must this argument continue?
It almost certainly has the most commonly accepted definition of the word "emulator" in mainstream society.
The other definitions were supposed to be the commonly accepted definitions of the word in mainstream society. The entry in question said "Computer Science" next to it, which means it should define the way the term is used in Computer Science. And I take back what I said about the difference being trivial: if both steps of the process I described in my earlier post are referred to as the same thing, you can't distinguish between the two. Luckily, computer scientists have narrowed the scope of certain words when used in their field.
MS Programmer 1: Hey, for shits and giggles we can disable Windows Update for WINE users by checking for a registry key!
MS Programmer 2: But what if legitimate users have the key in their registries for some reason? They wouldn't get updates, and that'd be a huge security hole. Isn't security more important than shits and giggles?
I think this article tells you how that conversation ended.
Sorry, but that third definition clearly applies. WINE most certainly is an emulator.
Or, [gasp!] the dictionary could be wrong! That never happens! In the realm of computers, the "modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data" involve translating foreign instructions to native ones. WINE doesn't translate anything. It's merely an implementation of the Win32 API. It does the same thing (well they aim to at least) that Microsoft's Win32 libraries do when given a program to run. If you wanted to run an OSX program on Linux x86, you'd need to translate the machine code to instructions that will run on native hardware, then implement the API used. The first step is PowerPC emulator: what the American Heritage Dictionary should have defined, but failed to.
FWIW, I think the difference is pretty trivial.