Well now, that's just great.
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That's all good and well, so when are we getting alpha-blending in X? It's really annoying having "almost" transparent terminals that copy my background.
I'm sure that by the time Linux is targeted at Joe User, kernel upgrades, unless specified otherwise, will contain every option in the menu compiled as a module, and every useless feature enabled.
This will probably kill its speed and bring it to Windows' level. Please don't let it be.
I'm sure everyone on Slashdot remembers the debacle concerning Dmitry Sklyarov/Elcomsoft and Adobe. SCO right now is doing the same thing Adobe attempted; make a collective ass of your company publically with regard to IP policy, recant your charges and then come off looking like you're no longer the bad guy while the damage has already been done.
That's one thing that did confuse me for certain -- the brushed metal look was supposed to only be used for applications which emulate the functionality of physical devices, i.e. Quicktime. Now we see Finder and Safari with it? What the hell is that? It's ugly on big windows, stop.
Everyone would love to believe Linux is a wonderful, robust and powerful application environment on the desktop. But, really, why do we have to refer to both Gnome and KDE as "Linux?" Call Gnome "Gnome," call KDE "KDE" and that's the end of the confusion. We don't see Joe User confusing Mac OS X with Windows with OS/2 terribly often. Just consider them entirely different platforms like we do Windows and Mac and let the power users handle Linux and interoperability between the desktops like they've been doing.
KDE has Human Interface Guidelines already, and they're really completely nondescript and aren't very cohesive at all. Gnome 2's are really much better and even match Apple's fairly well, in my opinion.
The web hosting company I work for uses Rodopi as its management system. It requires NTLM authentication, and it works fine in Firebird, whereas Opera will report that the authentication method is unsupported. The dialog itself is missing a "domain" input, but "DOMAIN\user" syntax works 100% correctly.
What constitutes a LAN that they are trying to tax? If I have a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone that communicates with my computer, is there a tax on that too? If they tax 802.11b/g, how about 2.4 GHz cordless phones operating on the same band? My computer gets its IP address via DHCP from my cable modem. Is this a local area network?
Furthermore, how would this work in practice? Would you have auditing commissions travelling from house to house inspecting crawlspaces for 3Com switches? Would you have to have a license to own networking equipment, like a TV license in the UK? What would the penalty be for operating a LAN without a license? They justify this as "taxing other forms of communication." Are they going to charge a 9% tax on children's walkie-talkies too? How about taxing the morons with their Nextel 2-way radios in a movie theater? Maybe that wouldn't be so terrible.
Unless the exact devices to be taxed are made insidiously clear, this could be a great way to ensure that arbitrary people are taxed on arbitrary things. Democrats especially.
As a bonus, it would legitimize BitTorrent in the public eye, which is, unfortunately, regarded commonly by industry lobbyists in the same piracy context as Kazaa. While Red Hat uses BitTorrent to distribute ISOs, what legislator cares about Red Hat? Besides, everyone knows ISOs are pirated software. The BBC is much more influential.
Isn't this a great way to advertise? Instead of spending $500,000 a week for a TV spot on a national network, which is impossible for such a small business, you devote a small portion of your profits to an open-source software project, let Slashdot hear about it, and several million geeks have heard about your coffee and visited your website. People like your ethos, so they'll buy your coffee regardless of whether it's good or not.
Then again, maybe I'm just a cynical little shit with no faith in American business.
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That's all good and well, so when are we getting alpha-blending in X? It's really annoying having "almost" transparent terminals that copy my background.
Not allowing .vbs, .pif, .scr, .js, .bat, .cmd, and .exe attachments through the firewall is a start.
I'm sure that by the time Linux is targeted at Joe User, kernel upgrades, unless specified otherwise, will contain every option in the menu compiled as a module, and every useless feature enabled.
This will probably kill its speed and bring it to Windows' level. Please don't let it be.
Wow, you're right. Oddly enough, this is one of those features that seems to be present in the Windows version, and not *n?x.
I've only used Opera on Linux because this 500 MHz PoS can't run Firebird quickly enough.
I do believe the issue of the open file dialog is already being addressed by the GTK development team.
I'm sure everyone on Slashdot remembers the debacle concerning Dmitry Sklyarov/Elcomsoft and Adobe. SCO right now is doing the same thing Adobe attempted; make a collective ass of your company publically with regard to IP policy, recant your charges and then come off looking like you're no longer the bad guy while the damage has already been done.
So is this really anything new? Probably not.
No way, it's so obviously Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie.
That's one thing that did confuse me for certain -- the brushed metal look was supposed to only be used for applications which emulate the functionality of physical devices, i.e. Quicktime. Now we see Finder and Safari with it? What the hell is that? It's ugly on big windows, stop.
Everyone would love to believe Linux is a wonderful, robust and powerful application environment on the desktop. But, really, why do we have to refer to both Gnome and KDE as "Linux?" Call Gnome "Gnome," call KDE "KDE" and that's the end of the confusion. We don't see Joe User confusing Mac OS X with Windows with OS/2 terribly often. Just consider them entirely different platforms like we do Windows and Mac and let the power users handle Linux and interoperability between the desktops like they've been doing.
KDE has Human Interface Guidelines already, and they're really completely nondescript and aren't very cohesive at all. Gnome 2's are really much better and even match Apple's fairly well, in my opinion.
The web hosting company I work for uses Rodopi as its management system. It requires NTLM authentication, and it works fine in Firebird, whereas Opera will report that the authentication method is unsupported. The dialog itself is missing a "domain" input, but "DOMAIN\user" syntax works 100% correctly.
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 was the last standalone release of Internet Explorer, right? So, really, they're not changing a single thing.
What are you talking about? Firebird has had NTLM support for months.
Except that what you described isn't bartering at all, it's haggling.
barter (bartr)
v. intr. To trade goods or services without the exchange of money.
v. tr. To trade (goods or services) without the exchange of money.
I know this is entirely irrelevant to your point, I'm just being a nitpicky prick today.
If you touch your CPU with the power on, you deserve it.
Now that's just silly.
Wait, so who was left?
I don't know about water boats, but knowing MIT students you'll probably see these things floating in a few water bongs.
Apparently you don't recall this MIT hack.
1. Create Beowolf cluster of Robostriders
2. ???
3. Congratulations. Your posts are nothing but a Slashdot gimmick.
What constitutes a LAN that they are trying to tax? If I have a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone that communicates with my computer, is there a tax on that too? If they tax 802.11b/g, how about 2.4 GHz cordless phones operating on the same band? My computer gets its IP address via DHCP from my cable modem. Is this a local area network?
Furthermore, how would this work in practice? Would you have auditing commissions travelling from house to house inspecting crawlspaces for 3Com switches? Would you have to have a license to own networking equipment, like a TV license in the UK? What would the penalty be for operating a LAN without a license? They justify this as "taxing other forms of communication." Are they going to charge a 9% tax on children's walkie-talkies too? How about taxing the morons with their Nextel 2-way radios in a movie theater? Maybe that wouldn't be so terrible.
Unless the exact devices to be taxed are made insidiously clear, this could be a great way to ensure that arbitrary people are taxed on arbitrary things. Democrats especially.
No. It's obviously a parody.
As a bonus, it would legitimize BitTorrent in the public eye, which is, unfortunately, regarded commonly by industry lobbyists in the same piracy context as Kazaa. While Red Hat uses BitTorrent to distribute ISOs, what legislator cares about Red Hat? Besides, everyone knows ISOs are pirated software. The BBC is much more influential.
Isn't this a great way to advertise? Instead of spending $500,000 a week for a TV spot on a national network, which is impossible for such a small business, you devote a small portion of your profits to an open-source software project, let Slashdot hear about it, and several million geeks have heard about your coffee and visited your website. People like your ethos, so they'll buy your coffee regardless of whether it's good or not.
Then again, maybe I'm just a cynical little shit with no faith in American business.
That's just what we tell the RIAA, that the marker preserves the longevity of our copy-protected CDs.