Not only is this important -- I think it would really make a whole lot more sense if KDE, Gnome, and everything else shared a lot of common file locations. My mail in Evolution and KMail should be stored in the same place by default without me resorting to strange mbox/maildir symlink hacks. My Evolution and KAddressBook should use the same files, so I don't need to manually sync them. It doesn't make any sense that they aren't.
I get the sense that 2004 is going to be an extremely important year from a usability perspective, and it will determine whether or not Linux succeeds on the desktop. 2003 brought us the great applications that caused me to switch from Windows to Linux in the first place. Now we need to bring them together for Joe User.
I switched from Gnome to KDE recently. Why? Consistency. It sounds silly, since Gnome prides itself upon the consistency of the user interface and the comprehensive Human Interface Guidelines. But KDE has a very nice predefined widget set. While I hate to dredge up the file selector, it's consistent whether it's embedded in K3B, in my file manager, or an open/save dialog; while some people have gripes with Qt, it's an extremely elegant toolkit that makes it ridiculously easy to derive new widgets. I can right-click an image in Konqueror, and save it directly to my webspace via FTP or WebDAV because all the file selectors take advantage of my kioslaves. They're both powerful in different ways, and if they could find ways to leverage both environments' strengths in one another, Linux would be absolutely unstoppable.
First off, you're an idiot. The GPL in no way means that the software has to be made available free of charge. The GPL simply states that if the software is made available in binary form, the source code has to be freely available as well.
Second, I view the open source development process as much more akin to capitalism than the traditional proprietary development model is. At, say, Microsoft, you have project coordinators who say "okay, you do this, you do this, and you do this." The open-source development model is much more capitalistic in that if you find an area that can use improvement, i.e. a faster algorithm for something, you upload a diff to the CVS server and it gets integrated into the source tree. In this way, the programs are competitive not only with one another, but with themselves as well.
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Would they be prepared if gravity reversed itself?
The only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets... I've got it! Nudity!
You're entirely taking for granted that they're actually letting us know about these intrusions. If someone inserted a backdoor into the most recent RPC patch on Microsoft's servers, assuming they even found the compromise, do you think they would let anyone know about it? If you run a web server, it can and most likely will at some point be compromised. I'm confident that Debian's sysadmins are at least every bit as competent as Microsoft's.
I, for one, am glad they are bothering to inform us of the compromise, rather than trying to play off a flawless "trustworthy computing initiative" that's riddled with more holes than a Wachowski Bros. movie plot. Debian is being responsible and is doing the right thing by alerting system administrators to a possible problem rather than allowing corporate politics to dictate a policy devoid of ethics and just sweeping it under the rug to hold onto stock prices.
Unfortunately, most campuses use Packeteer or other packet-shaping devices to analyze the packets to determine the traffic type in order to throttle bandwidth-hogging applications rather than blocking ports explicitly. While port-changing tricks may have worked in the past, even the most incompetent administrator can set up one of these, and no matter how many ports you try, you're not getting around it.
I think unifying the toolkits eliminates choice for developers. A better and more realistic goal should be to make the differences transparent to the user. The inner workings should be however the developers like them, but I think they should use a common method of drawing common widgets like toolbars, menus, buttons, etc. to unify the appearance of the desktop.
It's very difficult to implement in practice, but it's an ideal to strive for.
Then you are not of the target audience of this article. Why not troll PDA articles, saying "I bought a PDA back in 1999, and its 2MB of memory still stores all my contacts, so why are they still making new PDAs? No one cares."
If the article doesn't appeal to you, just don't read it. Stop whining.
IANADCIJ (I am not a DCI judge), but "Card" is ambiguous in this sense. You would have to specify "permanent" when referring to a card in play, or specifically enumerate "choose a card in target player's hand, graveyard, or library."
You could also pull the "name a card" thing like on Vexing Arcanix.
Windows-based server platforms have a user interface, and maybe this is what he's referring to? It certainly wouldn't surprise me, given the propensity for this man to suck Microsoft's dick.
And I noticed that you didn't bother to address any of the parent's other claims concerning invalidation of the open-source development method, et al. Making a claim about the user interface does naught for these points, which are fairly important ones.
The site www.princeton.edu is running Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.1.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on Solaris.
The best part of this is that this version of Apache was released in March 1999, and it's probably safe to assume that it hasn't been patched in 4 1/2 years. And does any department with this type of systems administration skill really have the right to criticize anything?
While Debian's package management is a step above RPM, I intend to point out that Debian is, hands-down, the de facto slowest Linux distribution I have ever gotten my hands upon. I strongly would recommend Gentoo instead.
Wendy's has trademarked "Spicy chicken sandwich," which is spicy, and seems to be a vaguely chicken-like substance, so I'm taking that with a grain of salt.
Kinda like how Americans have been sponsoring overseas terrorism for decades, but go nuts and put stickers everywhere when the World Trade Center gets attacked.
But to keep it on topic, I think a lot of us such as myself are buying from labels like Nuclear Blast and Century Media that are not affiliated with the RIAA.
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Not only is this important -- I think it would really make a whole lot more sense if KDE, Gnome, and everything else shared a lot of common file locations. My mail in Evolution and KMail should be stored in the same place by default without me resorting to strange mbox/maildir symlink hacks. My Evolution and KAddressBook should use the same files, so I don't need to manually sync them. It doesn't make any sense that they aren't.
I get the sense that 2004 is going to be an extremely important year from a usability perspective, and it will determine whether or not Linux succeeds on the desktop. 2003 brought us the great applications that caused me to switch from Windows to Linux in the first place. Now we need to bring them together for Joe User.
I switched from Gnome to KDE recently. Why? Consistency. It sounds silly, since Gnome prides itself upon the consistency of the user interface and the comprehensive Human Interface Guidelines. But KDE has a very nice predefined widget set. While I hate to dredge up the file selector, it's consistent whether it's embedded in K3B, in my file manager, or an open/save dialog; while some people have gripes with Qt, it's an extremely elegant toolkit that makes it ridiculously easy to derive new widgets. I can right-click an image in Konqueror, and save it directly to my webspace via FTP or WebDAV because all the file selectors take advantage of my kioslaves. They're both powerful in different ways, and if they could find ways to leverage both environments' strengths in one another, Linux would be absolutely unstoppable.
First off, you're an idiot. The GPL in no way means that the software has to be made available free of charge. The GPL simply states that if the software is made available in binary form, the source code has to be freely available as well.
Second, I view the open source development process as much more akin to capitalism than the traditional proprietary development model is. At, say, Microsoft, you have project coordinators who say "okay, you do this, you do this, and you do this." The open-source development model is much more capitalistic in that if you find an area that can use improvement, i.e. a faster algorithm for something, you upload a diff to the CVS server and it gets integrated into the source tree. In this way, the programs are competitive not only with one another, but with themselves as well.
Would they be prepared if gravity reversed itself?
The only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets... I've got it! Nudity!
Obligatory Real Genius quote.
You're entirely taking for granted that they're actually letting us know about these intrusions. If someone inserted a backdoor into the most recent RPC patch on Microsoft's servers, assuming they even found the compromise, do you think they would let anyone know about it? If you run a web server, it can and most likely will at some point be compromised. I'm confident that Debian's sysadmins are at least every bit as competent as Microsoft's.
I, for one, am glad they are bothering to inform us of the compromise, rather than trying to play off a flawless "trustworthy computing initiative" that's riddled with more holes than a Wachowski Bros. movie plot. Debian is being responsible and is doing the right thing by alerting system administrators to a possible problem rather than allowing corporate politics to dictate a policy devoid of ethics and just sweeping it under the rug to hold onto stock prices.
Unfortunately, most campuses use Packeteer or other packet-shaping devices to analyze the packets to determine the traffic type in order to throttle bandwidth-hogging applications rather than blocking ports explicitly. While port-changing tricks may have worked in the past, even the most incompetent administrator can set up one of these, and no matter how many ports you try, you're not getting around it.
You can't make a sequel, he died in the last one, remember?
Then again, him coming back to life would have fewer plot holes than the rest of that forsaken piece of cinematography...
I believe that, like many (most?) things Microsoft, it's stored in UTF8-encoded Unicode, not US-ASCII.
Your phone provider knows where you're located geographically, so I'm sure it's really not very difficult to implement.
I think unifying the toolkits eliminates choice for developers. A better and more realistic goal should be to make the differences transparent to the user. The inner workings should be however the developers like them, but I think they should use a common method of drawing common widgets like toolbars, menus, buttons, etc. to unify the appearance of the desktop.
It's very difficult to implement in practice, but it's an ideal to strive for.
Recursively.
Then you are not of the target audience of this article. Why not troll PDA articles, saying "I bought a PDA back in 1999, and its 2MB of memory still stores all my contacts, so why are they still making new PDAs? No one cares."
If the article doesn't appeal to you, just don't read it. Stop whining.
To be fair, the ATi-branded cards are currently produced by Sapphire.
IANADCIJ (I am not a DCI judge), but "Card" is ambiguous in this sense. You would have to specify "permanent" when referring to a card in play, or specifically enumerate "choose a card in target player's hand, graveyard, or library."
You could also pull the "name a card" thing like on Vexing Arcanix.
God, I haven't even touched this game in years.
You know, you still haven't addressed the other claims, especially the one generalizing the open-source development model.
Windows-based server platforms have a user interface, and maybe this is what he's referring to? It certainly wouldn't surprise me, given the propensity for this man to suck Microsoft's dick.
And I noticed that you didn't bother to address any of the parent's other claims concerning invalidation of the open-source development method, et al. Making a claim about the user interface does naught for these points, which are fairly important ones.
The best part of this is that this version of Apache was released in March 1999, and it's probably safe to assume that it hasn't been patched in 4 1/2 years. And does any department with this type of systems administration skill really have the right to criticize anything?
While Debian's package management is a step above RPM, I intend to point out that Debian is, hands-down, the de facto slowest Linux distribution I have ever gotten my hands upon. I strongly would recommend Gentoo instead.
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Relax, I was just trolling the troll.
Wendy's has trademarked "Spicy chicken sandwich," which is spicy, and seems to be a vaguely chicken-like substance, so I'm taking that with a grain of salt.
With UnixWare's stunning display of up-to-date technology, I'd be surprised if they could play MIDI.
For some reason, I can't picture them being that worried about SCO UnixWare getting pirated.
You can always just wait for them to send you your $1299 licensing notice, and then charge them with extortion instead.
Kinda like how Americans have been sponsoring overseas terrorism for decades, but go nuts and put stickers everywhere when the World Trade Center gets attacked.
But to keep it on topic, I think a lot of us such as myself are buying from labels like Nuclear Blast and Century Media that are not affiliated with the RIAA.