Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
For some reason, every time a bug was linked from Slashdot, it recieved a ton of people making uninformed comments such as "FIX THIS NOW OR ELSE I@LL USE OPERA!!!111" and somebody trying to assign it as everyone's number one priority to fix.
I didn't mean plugins. Maybe "interchangeable" would have been a better word. Anyway, see bug 182533 for details. (no link, slashdot -> bugzilla block still applies)
Also, no more need for Small and Large versions of icons
Actually, maybe there still is a need. Suppose we have an icon of a floppy disk. At a large size, drawing lines on the label is a nice decoration, and makes the icon more interesting. At a small size, the detail doesn't render right, and has to go.
There may be a way to embed rules for this in the SVG, though. But things aren't ever as simple as they seem.
The TPS's site states it's compulsory for phone calls: "Under Government legislation introduced on 1 May 1999 It is unlawful to make unsolicited direct marketing calls to individuals who have indicated that they do not want to receive such calls."
Junk texts are being banned under the new spam laws.
Also, you might try making a complaint to ICSTIS, the premium rate number regulator.
They can, IMO, punish junk texters using this portion of their rules:
2.8 PROMOTION BY NON-PREMIUM RATE SERVICES Wherever a premium rate service promotes, or is promoted by, a non-premium rate electronic communications service, both services will be considered as one where, in the opinion of ICSTIS, it is reasonable to do so.
I have a dialup connection, so a boxed distribution is absolutely essential to me. It isn't a choice between FooProg 1.12.4 and FooProg 1.14.6, it's a choice between Linux and Windows.
I could, I suppose, nip off to the nearest broadband internet cafe, download a load of stuff and burn it. But a box is easier.
This is the great thing with Linux - just because one company goes a certain way, you don't have to follow. Somebody will step in to let you go another.
I think the programs that clickwrap the GPL do it to emphasise the "No Warranty" part. We wouldn't want asshats bringing any more stupid lawsuits, now, would we?
What point was this article making? There's all this shiny hardware coming out, and nothing that needs it?
Apparently, the evil Open Source / Linux people aren't writing inefficient enough software! We really need to write another 1,000 useless effects into our window managers, so that £5,000 machine has something to do!
It would be nice if the article had a few ideas of what the power could be used for. Otherwise, it's as pointless as those "Desktop metaphor is dead!" articles that fail to suggest an alternative.
What is the accuracy of a DNA test? In other words, if they had everyone's DNA on file, how many people would they round up after a crime, and what would be the probability the test worked, and the suspect was only in this group?
And what accuracy would be tolerable here? Specifically, supposing my DNA matched a crime in the local area, and anybody else that was a decent match was proven to be elsewhere. Suppose I didn't do it. What are the chances of this situation? If this was fed to the jury, would I be freed?
Of course, there would likely to be other pieces of evidence in these cases. Assume what you want for these.
It is the same. RC3 was to see if anything final turned up. Nothing did, so it was released. You may say "Make me download twice! That's evil!", but would you rather they changed something for the sake of it and break something else in the process?
We initially release builds on the Win32, Mac OS X and Linux x86 platforms. In the days following the initial release, volunteers contribute builds for other platforms. If the build you're looking for isn't here yet, DON'T PANIC.
As I look at the releases page, there aren't releases for some of the OSes you list yet...
I will probably return to a normal class environment here at a local college... at least I know the guy is going to show up!
I did my A-Level computing at a local college (UK). The tutors kept quitting, we went through at least six, and most likely more, some for only one week. More time was spent telling the tutor what we had done then learning, and there were people there who thought this was what you did after a typing course, and wanted everybody to go at their pace.
Just because the place is physically there doesn't automatically mean it will be any good.
Re:Why bother
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fvwm Turns Ten
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Scenario: Company is considering switching to Linux desktops, to save money on new installations. This costs money on existing installations, due to re-installing and re-training.
Although all windowing environments bear some similarities, the closer to Windows one is, the less retraining is required, and the cheaper it is.
You may be able to pick up any interface, but consider people you've helped. How many of them have written every step down?
Use whatever desktop you want. Don't worry too much if somebody prefers something else.
It's simple: degrade the quality of music at each share.
Unless you're an audiophile trying to determine which recording of a piece is better, a low-quality recording will work just fine. After all, people buy after listening on AM radio, don't they?
This can also be used to prevent leeching. If you don't offer downloads which are at quality X on your machine, you can't get from people who have quality X files on *their* machine.
What's the best way to get the highest quality downloads? Go buy some music CDs so you have something to share... They could (but aren't going to) put the software in CD Extra.
The question of whether this is good or not is really the question of where the balance of power between the artist and the consumer should be.
On the one hand, artists should be compensated for their work. So an ideal music format would make that happen.
On the other hand, the consumer should be able to "try before they buy", make backups, cross formats, lend it, print it out and feed it to their dog, apply stupid filters in Cool Edit, and generally play with it however they want. An ideal music format would make this happen as well.
Can any format offer both? It seems not. To offer the user freedom, the file has to get unlocked at some point, and then P2P ensures it will get copied. Many artists will prefer the "get money" option, and the paying customers will be out of luck.
So, maybe the solution is to do something to P2P. This usually meets howls of protest, but there may be another way. Shazam. This is a neat service for when you hear a song and don't recognise it. Call them, point your phone at the speaker, and you get a text message back identifying the song. I think their tech could have other uses...
So, we have a Napster-like model with central servers, only your music now must pass the not-an-existing-tune test before being added. Record companies can supply the tags before a song is released, legitimate files get through, everyone's sort of happy.
Although you might prefer un-crippled files and un-crippled P2P, the Deep Pockets are going to try their hardest to stop you. Is this halfway position the best you can expect?
Reasons Why 200,000 Bug Reports != 200,000 Bugs
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Somebody always steps up to be the point-missing point-misser, so for their information, some reasons bug 200,000 isn't as bad as it sounds:
Bugzilla carries bugs on the whole mozilla project, including issues with the webtools, etc.
Sites which don't work in moz are still tracked by Bugzilla if it's the site's fault.
Common bugs gain a large number of duplicate reports
A lot of bug reports are RFEs rather than problems
Bug reports are also used as trackers for groups of bugs
Most of these bugs are fixed or closed, so they don't reflect current Moz quality
A large number of bugs are small problems / single platform / hard to reproduce and most users never hit them
looks to me like microwave kicks all kinds of ass. Kinda like when us kids started adding things like the middle finger to the classic R,P,S and said it was "dynamite".
Dynamite blows up rock
Scissors cut fuse of dynamite
Paper wraps dynamite stick which then blows up - draw!
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
For some reason, every time a bug was linked from Slashdot, it recieved a ton of people making uninformed comments such as "FIX THIS NOW OR ELSE I@LL USE OPERA!!!111" and somebody trying to assign it as everyone's number one priority to fix.
I didn't mean plugins. Maybe "interchangeable" would have been a better word. Anyway, see bug 182533 for details. (no link, slashdot -> bugzilla block still applies)
Also, no more need for Small and Large versions of icons
Actually, maybe there still is a need. Suppose we have an icon of a floppy disk. At a large size, drawing lines on the label is a nice decoration, and makes the icon more interesting. At a small size, the detail doesn't render right, and has to go.
There may be a way to embed rules for this in the SVG, though. But things aren't ever as simple as they seem.
Well, work is ongoing which would make the backend pluggable. This has resulted in a GDI+ version for windows, with fewer bugs.
It should allow a suitable renderer for Linux to be introduced at some stage, once somebody agrees to tri-li their work.
The TPS's site states it's compulsory for phone calls: "Under Government legislation introduced on 1 May 1999 It is unlawful to make unsolicited direct marketing calls to individuals who have indicated that they do not want to receive such calls."
Junk texts are being banned under the new spam laws.
Also, you might try making a complaint to ICSTIS, the premium rate number regulator.
They can, IMO, punish junk texters using this portion of their rules:
2.8 PROMOTION BY NON-PREMIUM RATE SERVICES Wherever a premium rate service promotes, or is promoted by, a non-premium rate electronic communications service, both services will be considered as one where, in the opinion of ICSTIS, it is reasonable to do so.
The UK already has a don't call list, the Telephone Preference Service
I have a dialup connection, so a boxed distribution is absolutely essential to me. It isn't a choice between FooProg 1.12.4 and FooProg 1.14.6, it's a choice between Linux and Windows.
I could, I suppose, nip off to the nearest broadband internet cafe, download a load of stuff and burn it. But a box is easier.
This is the great thing with Linux - just because one company goes a certain way, you don't have to follow. Somebody will step in to let you go another.
I think the programs that clickwrap the GPL do it to emphasise the "No Warranty" part. We wouldn't want asshats bringing any more stupid lawsuits, now, would we?
What point was this article making? There's all this shiny hardware coming out, and nothing that needs it?
Apparently, the evil Open Source / Linux people aren't writing inefficient enough software! We really need to write another 1,000 useless effects into our window managers, so that £5,000 machine has something to do!
It would be nice if the article had a few ideas of what the power could be used for. Otherwise, it's as pointless as those "Desktop metaphor is dead!" articles that fail to suggest an alternative.
What is the accuracy of a DNA test? In other words, if they had everyone's DNA on file, how many people would they round up after a crime, and what would be the probability the test worked, and the suspect was only in this group?
And what accuracy would be tolerable here? Specifically, supposing my DNA matched a crime in the local area, and anybody else that was a decent match was proven to be elsewhere. Suppose I didn't do it. What are the chances of this situation? If this was fed to the jury, would I be freed?
Of course, there would likely to be other pieces of evidence in these cases. Assume what you want for these.
It is the same. RC3 was to see if anything final turned up. Nothing did, so it was released. You may say "Make me download twice! That's evil!", but would you rather they changed something for the sake of it and break something else in the process?
From my experience, Penny Arcade looks odd when loading, but renders fine when it finishes. Does it still look off when it's done?
Read the release page:
We initially release builds on the Win32, Mac OS X and Linux x86 platforms. In the days following the initial release, volunteers contribute builds for other platforms. If the build you're looking for isn't here yet, DON'T PANIC.
As I look at the releases page, there aren't releases for some of the OSes you list yet...
You have evidence of a private phone company providing good service? Please forward this to BT, Telewest and ntl, they could do with a role model...
I will probably return to a normal class environment here at a local college ... at least I know the guy is going to show up!
I did my A-Level computing at a local college (UK). The tutors kept quitting, we went through at least six, and most likely more, some for only one week. More time was spent telling the tutor what we had done then learning, and there were people there who thought this was what you did after a typing course, and wanted everybody to go at their pace.
Just because the place is physically there doesn't automatically mean it will be any good.
Scenario: Company is considering switching to Linux desktops, to save money on new installations. This costs money on existing installations, due to re-installing and re-training.
Although all windowing environments bear some similarities, the closer to Windows one is, the less retraining is required, and the cheaper it is.
You may be able to pick up any interface, but consider people you've helped. How many of them have written every step down?
Use whatever desktop you want. Don't worry too much if somebody prefers something else.
It's right here in my Oxbridge English Dictionary. What are you on about?
and there's no windows
You expected to find Windows in Stallman's basement? Duh...
How to create a try-before-you-buy P2P system:
It's simple: degrade the quality of music at each share.
Unless you're an audiophile trying to determine which recording of a piece is better, a low-quality recording will work just fine. After all, people buy after listening on AM radio, don't they?
This can also be used to prevent leeching. If you don't offer downloads which are at quality X on your machine, you can't get from people who have quality X files on *their* machine.
What's the best way to get the highest quality downloads? Go buy some music CDs so you have something to share... They could (but aren't going to) put the software in CD Extra.
I hear it will make online shopping as fun as the lottery.
The question of whether this is good or not is really the question of where the balance of power between the artist and the consumer should be.
On the one hand, artists should be compensated for their work. So an ideal music format would make that happen.
On the other hand, the consumer should be able to "try before they buy", make backups, cross formats, lend it, print it out and feed it to their dog, apply stupid filters in Cool Edit, and generally play with it however they want. An ideal music format would make this happen as well.
Can any format offer both? It seems not. To offer the user freedom, the file has to get unlocked at some point, and then P2P ensures it will get copied. Many artists will prefer the "get money" option, and the paying customers will be out of luck.
So, maybe the solution is to do something to P2P. This usually meets howls of protest, but there may be another way. Shazam. This is a neat service for when you hear a song and don't recognise it. Call them, point your phone at the speaker, and you get a text message back identifying the song. I think their tech could have other uses...
So, we have a Napster-like model with central servers, only your music now must pass the not-an-existing-tune test before being added. Record companies can supply the tags before a song is released, legitimate files get through, everyone's sort of happy.
Although you might prefer un-crippled files and un-crippled P2P, the Deep Pockets are going to try their hardest to stop you. Is this halfway position the best you can expect?
looks to me like microwave kicks all kinds of ass. Kinda like when us kids started adding things like the middle finger to the classic R,P,S and said it was "dynamite".
Dynamite blows up rock
Scissors cut fuse of dynamite
Paper wraps dynamite stick which then blows up - draw!
What's the problem?
We'll be seeing phones with this fitted... ooh... five minutes after everyone's bought a camera phone?
Possibly because Slashdot is full of pedants? I'm sure you can work out the rest yourself.