How do you suggest a library allow you to check out digital content online? Without DRM, they'd be giving you a copy of the book, and I doubt the copyright holders would be too happy about that. My guess is that your library talked to publishers, and they allowed digital checkouts if they were DRM-encumbered.
Personally, I won't buy an e-book if it's DRM-encumbered, but this is the only way digital checkouts are even legal.
Remember the first time you heard about the -moz-border-radius CSS properties, tried them out, and saw that it gave you ugly, jagged corners? Fear no more! Cairo anti-aliases those and makes them look nice and pretty.
What do you mean "that's not worth a performance hit"?
I'll give you the first one. That should definitely be an easily accessible option, especially since the terminal is a power user program in the first place. For the second one, I'm not sure I understand you. Do you mean the Other category in the Applications menu? If so, it doesn't show up for me on Ubuntu by default because there's nothing in it. I've installed a program that goes there in the past, and the Other menu appears. For the third one, I have no idea what this RMB menu you speak of is. Rhythmbox? That's not really a normal use case. If you're talking about the main menu, you can right click on it and click Edit Menus.
It's a freakin UNIX box with an open source kernel, that ships with a DVD full of developer tools! How much more functional do you want?For people who like to dig into their OS, the kernel is usually at a lower level than is useful. What is useful is being able to tweak iTunes to do something in a specific way, or change some Finder feature that you don't like. Very few people actually do this, but the people who do have created a couple of open source desktop environments that aren't too shabby. When someone else comes along with a need and the requisite skills to fulfill it, you've got a new contributor. The usefulness of an open source user-space is far greater than that of an open source kernel.
To Grossly over simplify, Gnome sacrifices customizability for usability and simplicity.People say this often, but I've never heard someone give an actual example of something they wanted to customize, but couldn't. Care to enlighten me?
I've been using Google to help me diagnose my medical problems about every day for years now. The only problem that I've run into is that at the top of all my results these days, it says "Did you mean hypochondria?"
In the 90's, the idea that scared Microsoft into creating a web browser in the first place was that the web browser could be a platform that made the underlying operating system irrelevant. In the Browser Wars 2.0, it seems like that idea has been put on the backburner so far. There are very few third party developers who create applications on the Mozilla platform. The notable ones that come to mind are Flock and Songbird. Firefox is one of, if not the most popular cross platform applications existing today, so it makes sense that people would want to build on top of its success. However, the developer interest in XUL doesn't seem to be that high. As someone who is looking to create a cross-platform application in the near future, why should I pick XUL, and what are you doing to make it a more attractive platform?
This is slightly off-topic, but what's the point of making a diagram if you're going to make it this complicated? That diagram provides basically no information, which is pretty typical of all the diagrams in Dion Hinchcliffe's articles that I've seen. It hurts.
I just wish you could turn the feed off altogether - I miss the old, uncluttered homepage.
There was pretty much no information on the home page before. Why exactly is that desirable? Why does it matter if the page is "one of the more attractive pages on the Internet"? Personally, I never spent more then two seconds on the old home page. I was either on my way to my profile, or on the way to my list of friends to see who had updated recently. Now the home page is actually useful, and that's a problem somehow? Explain.
Without Debian, where would we have the amazing, huge codebase for every Ubuntu, Jibbajabba, or Lilixinidros distribution out there?
No one is questioning the contribution Debian developers have made to the Linux ecosystem as a whole. The question is, is Debian able to do anything groundbreaking on its own anymore? If someone were to try to move to a new init system in Debian, how long would it take to actually get done?
Personally, I think Debian should embrace its role as a distribution that others derive from. It is doing an excellent job in that respect, and I don't think the current organizational structure of the project could allow it to function as anything else in a more effective way. If some of the developers would stop antagonizing Ubuntu and embrace it instead, I think we'd all be better off.
As long as the money made from this is going to the goverment of Cameroon and not some registrar, why is this an issue? The.cm ccTLD belongs to Cameroon. Why can't they decide what they want to do with it?
Basically, everybody speeds on this freeway if it's during commute time. I get passed by people when I'm going 80. It's a nice feeling. I guess the police just don't enfore the speed limit on 280? I haven't seen someone get pulled over yet, though I've only been driving on it for a month.
My commute is entirely south of that between Palo Alto and Cupertino. It's amazing and it's beautiful, not that there's really time to soak in the ambiance when you're flying by doing 85.
You have Fedora Core for testing and for more desktop type use (things get updated faster) and if you don't want to pay for Red Hat then you can always go with Cent OS.
The problem with CentOS is that there's no upgrade path. If you start out using CentOS, Red Hat will never support you unless you move over to RHEL, which is a hassle. With Ubuntu, you start off free and buy support as necessary. I think it's a better deal.
Also, I'm white, on top of which I go to great lengths to be polite and act in a respectful way, even if I'm thinking "what the hell do you want from me?"
I'm black, I do the same thing as you do, and I've had pretty much the same experience. The one time I've actually gotten a ticket, the officer thanked me for being polite to him. Not that that's the only time I've been pulled over, but the previous three or so times, I got off with just a warning. I'm not sure why exactly, but being nice can never hurt. Luckily, I don't really have to worry about traffic tickets anymore, since I drive to work on 280. There are no laws on 280.
But I'm one of the people who see the implications of the Zimbardo prison experiment in everyday situations, probably to an extent where most people would be rolling their eyes and saying "you're really reaching now."
Exactly. You take normal people and put them into a position of power, and it changes them. In my experience, treating them with respect instead of antagonizing them tends to soften the effect. I don't see why more people don't give it a shot. Plus, out of all the cops out there, how many of them are truly bad people? I don't think there are that many.
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How do you suggest a library allow you to check out digital content online? Without DRM, they'd be giving you a copy of the book, and I doubt the copyright holders would be too happy about that. My guess is that your library talked to publishers, and they allowed digital checkouts if they were DRM-encumbered.
Personally, I won't buy an e-book if it's DRM-encumbered, but this is the only way digital checkouts are even legal.
Remember the first time you heard about the -moz-border-radius CSS properties, tried them out, and saw that it gave you ugly, jagged corners? Fear no more! Cairo anti-aliases those and makes them look nice and pretty.
What do you mean "that's not worth a performance hit"?
I'll give you the first one. That should definitely be an easily accessible option, especially since the terminal is a power user program in the first place. For the second one, I'm not sure I understand you. Do you mean the Other category in the Applications menu? If so, it doesn't show up for me on Ubuntu by default because there's nothing in it. I've installed a program that goes there in the past, and the Other menu appears. For the third one, I have no idea what this RMB menu you speak of is. Rhythmbox? That's not really a normal use case. If you're talking about the main menu, you can right click on it and click Edit Menus.
Pick his agenda, pick his priorities, open office to anyone without a corporate interest.I doubt he'd be giving OpenOffice to anyone.
Then again, it could've been an actual typo this time.
It's a freakin UNIX box with an open source kernel, that ships with a DVD full of developer tools! How much more functional do you want?For people who like to dig into their OS, the kernel is usually at a lower level than is useful. What is useful is being able to tweak iTunes to do something in a specific way, or change some Finder feature that you don't like. Very few people actually do this, but the people who do have created a couple of open source desktop environments that aren't too shabby. When someone else comes along with a need and the requisite skills to fulfill it, you've got a new contributor. The usefulness of an open source user-space is far greater than that of an open source kernel.
To Grossly over simplify, Gnome sacrifices customizability for usability and simplicity.People say this often, but I've never heard someone give an actual example of something they wanted to customize, but couldn't. Care to enlighten me?
If you're talking about Yes/No dialog boxes - no, they do it differently.No, Gnome does the same thing.
From the Gnome HIG:
"Label all buttons with imperative verbs, using header capitalization. For example, Save, Sort or Update Now."
They're not getting rid of the dollar coins any time soon.
Presidential Dollar Coin Program
Let me guess... The decoded signal will read, "Save the cheerleader, save the world."
After 500 years, we still have to deal with namespace collisions caused by Columbus covering his ass.
Aw crap, we're lost. What do I tell the crew...
"Congratulations, everyone! We've made it to India!"
I've been using Google to help me diagnose my medical problems about every day for years now. The only problem that I've run into is that at the top of all my results these days, it says "Did you mean hypochondria?"
BSD.
In the 90's, the idea that scared Microsoft into creating a web browser in the first place was that the web browser could be a platform that made the underlying operating system irrelevant. In the Browser Wars 2.0, it seems like that idea has been put on the backburner so far. There are very few third party developers who create applications on the Mozilla platform. The notable ones that come to mind are Flock and Songbird. Firefox is one of, if not the most popular cross platform applications existing today, so it makes sense that people would want to build on top of its success. However, the developer interest in XUL doesn't seem to be that high. As someone who is looking to create a cross-platform application in the near future, why should I pick XUL, and what are you doing to make it a more attractive platform?
That's not a blessing. It's an inalienable right. Settling for mediocrity just because it's better than nothing is silly.
Why does "series of tubes" have it's own article? I think I'll replace it with a redirect to the "Internet" article.
This is slightly off-topic, but what's the point of making a diagram if you're going to make it this complicated? That diagram provides basically no information, which is pretty typical of all the diagrams in Dion Hinchcliffe's articles that I've seen. It hurts.
I just wish you could turn the feed off altogether - I miss the old, uncluttered homepage.
There was pretty much no information on the home page before. Why exactly is that desirable? Why does it matter if the page is "one of the more attractive pages on the Internet"? Personally, I never spent more then two seconds on the old home page. I was either on my way to my profile, or on the way to my list of friends to see who had updated recently. Now the home page is actually useful, and that's a problem somehow? Explain.
Without Debian, where would we have the amazing, huge codebase for every Ubuntu, Jibbajabba, or Lilixinidros distribution out there?
No one is questioning the contribution Debian developers have made to the Linux ecosystem as a whole. The question is, is Debian able to do anything groundbreaking on its own anymore? If someone were to try to move to a new init system in Debian, how long would it take to actually get done?
Personally, I think Debian should embrace its role as a distribution that others derive from. It is doing an excellent job in that respect, and I don't think the current organizational structure of the project could allow it to function as anything else in a more effective way. If some of the developers would stop antagonizing Ubuntu and embrace it instead, I think we'd all be better off.
As long as the money made from this is going to the goverment of Cameroon and not some registrar, why is this an issue? The .cm ccTLD belongs to Cameroon. Why can't they decide what they want to do with it?
Basically, everybody speeds on this freeway if it's during commute time. I get passed by people when I'm going 80. It's a nice feeling. I guess the police just don't enfore the speed limit on 280? I haven't seen someone get pulled over yet, though I've only been driving on it for a month.
My commute is entirely south of that between Palo Alto and Cupertino. It's amazing and it's beautiful, not that there's really time to soak in the ambiance when you're flying by doing 85.
You have Fedora Core for testing and for more desktop type use (things get updated faster) and if you don't want to pay for Red Hat then you can always go with Cent OS.
The problem with CentOS is that there's no upgrade path. If you start out using CentOS, Red Hat will never support you unless you move over to RHEL, which is a hassle. With Ubuntu, you start off free and buy support as necessary. I think it's a better deal.
Also, I'm white, on top of which I go to great lengths to be polite and act in a respectful way, even if I'm thinking "what the hell do you want from me?"
I'm black, I do the same thing as you do, and I've had pretty much the same experience. The one time I've actually gotten a ticket, the officer thanked me for being polite to him. Not that that's the only time I've been pulled over, but the previous three or so times, I got off with just a warning. I'm not sure why exactly, but being nice can never hurt. Luckily, I don't really have to worry about traffic tickets anymore, since I drive to work on 280. There are no laws on 280.
But I'm one of the people who see the implications of the Zimbardo prison experiment in everyday situations, probably to an extent where most people would be rolling their eyes and saying "you're really reaching now."
Exactly. You take normal people and put them into a position of power, and it changes them. In my experience, treating them with respect instead of antagonizing them tends to soften the effect. I don't see why more people don't give it a shot. Plus, out of all the cops out there, how many of them are truly bad people? I don't think there are that many.