Don't worry, your post will get there. I admit I burst out laughing as soon as I read the headline but if you want something mildly insightful I might as well fill in something while I have the time.
Is it any surprise that there's a dark spot on Uranus? Jupiter has a couple of huge cyclones raging on in there, so does Saturn. Both the planet's black spots are bigger than Uranus' anyway. Uranus is a gas giant, since there's going to be some wind going on there I'm not exactly shocked that huge cyclones have formed.
Enormous cyclones I think are just a side-effect of gas giants. I don't think it's anything to get excited about.
Do I have to draw the joke above the head picture for you? Great Grandparent made a joke in reference to the slashdot announcement on the iPod - "Less space than a Nomad, no wireless. Lame." Not very funny or applicable in this situation but hey, he probably liked it. I was making fun of him saying that a mobile phone had no wireless. Now I've wasted about a minute of my life explaining that - I feel silly.
If a mobile phone doesn't have some sort of wireless communication technology then it probably won't do well in the market place. I'm pretty sure this does have some wireless stuff in it though.
I haven't tinkered with my user interface since the day I installed Linux on my desktop computer. I've found an interface that I like and I've stuck with it. Changing the interface doesn't require constant tinkering... I haven't even changed the background wallpaper for months since I quite like this one I have.
Gnome is usable as soon as its installed. To make KDE work properly, you have to tinker with it at least an hour before you can start doing anything. That's a real pain in the ass to do for each system you set up.
Gnome gives me the features I want without the clutter that KDE shows by default. So if I were to switch to KDE I'd spend an hour to reconfigure it to an interface that would end up being similar to gnome's default configuration.
That's a very subjective argument. If I may be a hypocrite and do exactly what you just did and assume on something, I'm interpreting your message that you are so used to the Gnome interface that you won't accept anything else.
That's probably fair enough, since I'm probably so used to my KDE interface that both Gnome, Windows and even Macs seem plain and unintuitive compared to mine. I don't, however, attempt to clone my KDE interface onto each other system I use, and that you can form the Gnome interface using KDE is a testiment to KDE's customisability I think.
It sounds like your griefs are more with the chosen theme than with KDE... Why don't you just change the theme?
I actually like KDE because it's customisable. As far as I know you can't easily customise the path chooser in Gnome. I like a system where I can easily change the layout to suit me, rather than changing me to suit the layout.
For example, that's why I use Firefox over Konqueror (even though I use KDE). Konqueror's a fine file browser but there's one thing that bugs me about it as a web browser: I like as much room as possible for a web browser and you can't, like Firefox, put *everything* (including location bar and menus) on the one line. That's the simple reason why I use firefox instead of Konqueror.
I'm not so sure. The spaceship doesn't need to have windows on it for us to interface with it. It just needs to have an interface, and most probably the aliens wouldn't be using anything so amazingly advanced that we couldn't possibly interface with it. We could create a virus for the alien invaders if we put our mind to it.
The real wtf with that isn't that a virus could be created I think, it's that a virus could be created in a matter of hours and actually have it work first time with the alien mothership.
I think by science fiction he meant futuristic, where as Jurassic Park was set in the present. Not futuristic is important, not science fiction is less important.
A suggestion: Your video card (or maybe the connection between video and motherboard, I assume AGP) might be slightly faulty. I had very similar problems to you with a *very* similar setup, and when I subbed in another video card the problems magically went away.
Turns out that the OSS nv drivers are quite picky and don't work that well with hardware faults, even minor ones that the official nvidia drivers will just bypass.
I think you're missing the point of your parent. Yau's trying to prove he's not flawed, manipulative and obsessed with his place in history by threatening to sue a newspaper for publishing an article?
A better tactic by Yau would just be to publish a letter without actual legal action. If he didn't get his attorney involved outside of perhaps looking over the letter to make sure nothing was wrong with it I think people would be a lot more sympathetic.
Maybe baby steps. KDE 4 should be fun. Maybe one of the user distros will get the *wild* idea to tie it to the system. Drop legecy support. Call me crazy, but I just don't see Windows 98 users getting cosy with VI, modprobe, hell, package management. Its like we all talk Klingon and don't understand when everyone else isn't doing it.
I don't understand. Why does removing vi from the system make the system more usable? It's just an app which most users won't ever use... Are you suggesting that we should just drop the kernel wgen you say drop modprobe?
You might be a sysadmin, but you're obviously not a programmer. Layers are good - very good. If you don't have layers then things are going to be much much harder to manage. Yes a desktop system is just a server with a pretty GUI. A firewall is just a server without any services except one. Layers are good.
Currently the Linux setup is the same as the way Windows and Macs do it. Macs and Windows are layered in pretty much exactly the same way - you have the kernel -> system services -> graphical system -> desktop.
Though the parent is quite obviously a troll (seriously mate, you're wasting your words if you think that post has any affect at all - it's way too obvious), I feel the need to correct him just for the sake of rigour.
The Pirate Party does not seek to abolish copyright or try to steal copyright but simply limit it. 70 years past the death of the author is stupid. Copyright was developed as incentive to the author to create work. I don't see why the author would see less incentive to create work when copyright is even 5 years than if it were 70 years past his death.
Lets face it, copyright now isn't about the content creators, it's simply a tool for corporations to make money.
KDE and Gnome are quite different now - each of the desktop environments (including XFCE, Fluxbox and even Enlightenment) serve their own purpose and have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. For KDE and Gnome, Gnome is more user friendly by default. It lets a new user just pick it up and use it as it holds quite a good intuitive interface. Lets face it, it's not the flashiest environment you'd ever use, but it's functional and easy. KDE on the other hand is a bit heavier since it tries to accomodate enormous amounts of customisation. It's more for the people who want to mould everything how they want it. This is definitely reflected in the system options - you have options for pretty much everything in KDE, because why wouldn't you want to change exactly how the curser behaves in kwrite?
Personally I use KDE on my desktop because I use it quite often and I enjoy customising the little details. I'm getting a new laptop soon and quite probably I'll be using Gnome on it. I'm not schizophrenic, I'm just perceiving that KDE and Gnome have their own advantages and trying to take advantage of them.
What does "As can be seen by doing a search" mean? When I click the link I see lots of results from the site - I assumed that there were no results to be expected. Don't tell me the newspapers caved in so early...
Wolfenstein you could go left or right. Doom you could go up and down as well. You might not think straight away that that was a huge change, but I do.
The problem is that they're already paying the lecturer to teach them. In my opinion the lecturer should try to do as much as he can to teach his/her students not take the opportunity to charge even more money.
If Microsoft's market share is the only thing going for it then why would people still buy Windows if Microsoft doesn't have such a dominant market share?
What on earth are you on about? *Most* IT departments "in the real world" are staffed by either incompetants and/or people who know little about star trek or dungeons and dragons. On that matter, most guys in IT departments never got bullied, and actually have talked to a girl before.
Not everyone's a stereotype mate.
(I probably shouldn't have used the words stereotype and mate together, I'm sure it's bad form or something)
I don't mean to be a pedant but this article has nothing to do with quantum computing. It just has to do with using quantum mechanics to design a data stream that is impossible to be eavedropped on according to quantum physics. See Wikipedia for more details.
> Enjoy one of the last artists that is still concerned about his fans and music no matter how hilarious and campy it may be. He has the sense to realize that he's very well off compared to his fans and jokes about solid gold humvees and diamond studded pools.
Is it ironic that the song makes me want to go out and buy his new record, giving Weird Al the money I think he deserves? I do believe it is!
From what I read of ESR's comments (the ones referenced in the summary) they're taken out of context. He was simply emphesising that multimedia support is vital for Linux adoption by showing the amount of times he's been asked whether Linux supports the iPod, rather than saying that Linux doesn't support the iPod well.
Brings up an interesting point there as well. Why does there need to be a common installer? There's no common installer in Windows. People dish out loads of money for Installshield or use (for free) NSIS, and if you want similar functionality in Linux why don't you you use Bitrock or (for free) Loki?
I'm not sure about API since you're always going to have Linux from Scratch to stuff developers over, but it's never usually been a problem - if you want apps just install the required libraries.
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When someone's looking to revue a patent they're not looking for positive things in why the patent is good, they're looking for reasons why it shouldn't be given. So if you let people only give reasons why the patent shouldn't be given what is the company going to do? Post bad things about the patent?
I think the more open the patent registering system the better.
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Don't worry, your post will get there. I admit I burst out laughing as soon as I read the headline but if you want something mildly insightful I might as well fill in something while I have the time.
Is it any surprise that there's a dark spot on Uranus? Jupiter has a couple of huge cyclones raging on in there, so does Saturn. Both the planet's black spots are bigger than Uranus' anyway. Uranus is a gas giant, since there's going to be some wind going on there I'm not exactly shocked that huge cyclones have formed.
Enormous cyclones I think are just a side-effect of gas giants. I don't think it's anything to get excited about.
Do I have to draw the joke above the head picture for you? Great Grandparent made a joke in reference to the slashdot announcement on the iPod - "Less space than a Nomad, no wireless. Lame." Not very funny or applicable in this situation but hey, he probably liked it. I was making fun of him saying that a mobile phone had no wireless. Now I've wasted about a minute of my life explaining that - I feel silly.
If a mobile phone doesn't have some sort of wireless communication technology then it probably won't do well in the market place. I'm pretty sure this does have some wireless stuff in it though.
I haven't tinkered with my user interface since the day I installed Linux on my desktop computer. I've found an interface that I like and I've stuck with it. Changing the interface doesn't require constant tinkering... I haven't even changed the background wallpaper for months since I quite like this one I have.
Gnome is usable as soon as its installed. To make KDE work properly, you have to tinker with it at least an hour before you can start doing anything. That's a real pain in the ass to do for each system you set up.
Gnome gives me the features I want without the clutter that KDE shows by default. So if I were to switch to KDE I'd spend an hour to reconfigure it to an interface that would end up being similar to gnome's default configuration.
That's a very subjective argument. If I may be a hypocrite and do exactly what you just did and assume on something, I'm interpreting your message that you are so used to the Gnome interface that you won't accept anything else.
That's probably fair enough, since I'm probably so used to my KDE interface that both Gnome, Windows and even Macs seem plain and unintuitive compared to mine. I don't, however, attempt to clone my KDE interface onto each other system I use, and that you can form the Gnome interface using KDE is a testiment to KDE's customisability I think.
It sounds like your griefs are more with the chosen theme than with KDE... Why don't you just change the theme?
I actually like KDE because it's customisable. As far as I know you can't easily customise the path chooser in Gnome. I like a system where I can easily change the layout to suit me, rather than changing me to suit the layout.
For example, that's why I use Firefox over Konqueror (even though I use KDE). Konqueror's a fine file browser but there's one thing that bugs me about it as a web browser: I like as much room as possible for a web browser and you can't, like Firefox, put *everything* (including location bar and menus) on the one line. That's the simple reason why I use firefox instead of Konqueror.
I'm not so sure. The spaceship doesn't need to have windows on it for us to interface with it. It just needs to have an interface, and most probably the aliens wouldn't be using anything so amazingly advanced that we couldn't possibly interface with it. We could create a virus for the alien invaders if we put our mind to it.
The real wtf with that isn't that a virus could be created I think, it's that a virus could be created in a matter of hours and actually have it work first time with the alien mothership.
I think by science fiction he meant futuristic, where as Jurassic Park was set in the present. Not futuristic is important, not science fiction is less important.
Isn't that the one with young Angelina Jolie topless?
Just saying...
A suggestion: Your video card (or maybe the connection between video and motherboard, I assume AGP) might be slightly faulty. I had very similar problems to you with a *very* similar setup, and when I subbed in another video card the problems magically went away.
Turns out that the OSS nv drivers are quite picky and don't work that well with hardware faults, even minor ones that the official nvidia drivers will just bypass.
I think you're missing the point of your parent. Yau's trying to prove he's not flawed, manipulative and obsessed with his place in history by threatening to sue a newspaper for publishing an article?
A better tactic by Yau would just be to publish a letter without actual legal action. If he didn't get his attorney involved outside of perhaps looking over the letter to make sure nothing was wrong with it I think people would be a lot more sympathetic.
Maybe baby steps. KDE 4 should be fun. Maybe one of the user distros will get the *wild* idea to tie it to the system. Drop legecy support. Call me crazy, but I just don't see Windows 98 users getting cosy with VI, modprobe, hell, package management. Its like we all talk Klingon and don't understand when everyone else isn't doing it.
I don't understand. Why does removing vi from the system make the system more usable? It's just an app which most users won't ever use... Are you suggesting that we should just drop the kernel wgen you say drop modprobe?
You might be a sysadmin, but you're obviously not a programmer. Layers are good - very good. If you don't have layers then things are going to be much much harder to manage. Yes a desktop system is just a server with a pretty GUI. A firewall is just a server without any services except one. Layers are good.
Currently the Linux setup is the same as the way Windows and Macs do it. Macs and Windows are layered in pretty much exactly the same way - you have the kernel -> system services -> graphical system -> desktop.
Though the parent is quite obviously a troll (seriously mate, you're wasting your words if you think that post has any affect at all - it's way too obvious), I feel the need to correct him just for the sake of rigour.
The Pirate Party does not seek to abolish copyright or try to steal copyright but simply limit it. 70 years past the death of the author is stupid. Copyright was developed as incentive to the author to create work. I don't see why the author would see less incentive to create work when copyright is even 5 years than if it were 70 years past his death.
Lets face it, copyright now isn't about the content creators, it's simply a tool for corporations to make money.
Agreed.
KDE and Gnome are quite different now - each of the desktop environments (including XFCE, Fluxbox and even Enlightenment) serve their own purpose and have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. For KDE and Gnome, Gnome is more user friendly by default. It lets a new user just pick it up and use it as it holds quite a good intuitive interface. Lets face it, it's not the flashiest environment you'd ever use, but it's functional and easy. KDE on the other hand is a bit heavier since it tries to accomodate enormous amounts of customisation. It's more for the people who want to mould everything how they want it. This is definitely reflected in the system options - you have options for pretty much everything in KDE, because why wouldn't you want to change exactly how the curser behaves in kwrite?
Personally I use KDE on my desktop because I use it quite often and I enjoy customising the little details. I'm getting a new laptop soon and quite probably I'll be using Gnome on it. I'm not schizophrenic, I'm just perceiving that KDE and Gnome have their own advantages and trying to take advantage of them.
What does "As can be seen by doing a search" mean? When I click the link I see lots of results from the site - I assumed that there were no results to be expected. Don't tell me the newspapers caved in so early...
Wolfenstein you could go left or right. Doom you could go up and down as well. You might not think straight away that that was a huge change, but I do.
The problem is that they're already paying the lecturer to teach them. In my opinion the lecturer should try to do as much as he can to teach his/her students not take the opportunity to charge even more money.
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Never would have thought - meaningless subgroups rule!
If Microsoft's market share is the only thing going for it then why would people still buy Windows if Microsoft doesn't have such a dominant market share?
What on earth are you on about? *Most* IT departments "in the real world" are staffed by either incompetants and/or people who know little about star trek or dungeons and dragons. On that matter, most guys in IT departments never got bullied, and actually have talked to a girl before.
Not everyone's a stereotype mate.
(I probably shouldn't have used the words stereotype and mate together, I'm sure it's bad form or something)
I don't mean to be a pedant but this article has nothing to do with quantum computing. It just has to do with using quantum mechanics to design a data stream that is impossible to be eavedropped on according to quantum physics. See Wikipedia for more details.
> Enjoy one of the last artists that is still concerned about his fans and music no matter how hilarious and campy it may be. He has the sense to realize that he's very well off compared to his fans and jokes about solid gold humvees and diamond studded pools.
Is it ironic that the song makes me want to go out and buy his new record, giving Weird Al the money I think he deserves? I do believe it is!
Two. The other two people who modded it modded it informative because they didn't understand it.
From what I read of ESR's comments (the ones referenced in the summary) they're taken out of context. He was simply emphesising that multimedia support is vital for Linux adoption by showing the amount of times he's been asked whether Linux supports the iPod, rather than saying that Linux doesn't support the iPod well.
Brings up an interesting point there as well. Why does there need to be a common installer? There's no common installer in Windows. People dish out loads of money for Installshield or use (for free) NSIS, and if you want similar functionality in Linux why don't you you use Bitrock or (for free) Loki? I'm not sure about API since you're always going to have Linux from Scratch to stuff developers over, but it's never usually been a problem - if you want apps just install the required libraries.
When someone's looking to revue a patent they're not looking for positive things in why the patent is good, they're looking for reasons why it shouldn't be given. So if you let people only give reasons why the patent shouldn't be given what is the company going to do? Post bad things about the patent? I think the more open the patent registering system the better.