So they should use a standard USB protocol rather than a "roll-your-own" protocol. Saying they should completely avoid USB just because they might screw it up is cutting off your nose to spite your face. After all, if a USB CompactFlash reader can be made to work, couldn't the remote work if it used exactly the same protocol?
DMOZ also has the problem that many of the editors are biased. This is especially true in commercial categories, where editors will often make it difficult for competitors to get their sites listed. Yes, there are supposed to be rules against that, but it still happens. For commercial categories it's hard to find expects who are also impartial.
Of course, that still doesn't work for people who went to school in a different country. I moved to the US after graduating from university. Couldn't get a student card, since I wasn't a student anymore, but I couldn't get a regular card either because US banks will only check US credit history.
Of course, now (several years later) I get about 10 credit card offers in the mail every week.:-Q
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Are you running gvim? I know some versions of RedHat have a problem where/usr/share/vim/gvimrc is a symlink to/usr/share/vim/vimrc. This causes anything in/usr/share/vim/vimrc to override your.vimrc if you're running gvim, because gvim runs:/usr/share/vim/vimrc
~/.vimrc/usr/share/vim/gvimrc
~/.gvimrc
(in that order) Perhaps Mandrake has the same packaging problem.
Second, you actually did pay for the entire drive. The software simply blocks off part of it as reserved and you don't get to use it. That hardly makes it ok.
Actually, you probably didn't. TiVo units are typically sold below cost.
Microsoft has been determined to be a monopoly and has been convicted of monopolistic behavior.
Not exactly. They're guilty of anti-competitive behavior. "Monopolistic behavior" isn't a crime, but anti-competitive behavior is, if you're a monopoly.
VNC doesn't send JPEGs, nor does it regularly send the entire screen over the wire. It only sends rectangular areas of the screen that have changed. This is potentially less efficient than sending what is effectively GDI over the wire, but it isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be. VNC works fine for running typical apps over a DSL connection, and is more than adequate for remote system administration on a LAN.
As for dragging this into a discussion on the Hurd, that becomes rather amusing, considering that RMS isn't exactly active on the Hurd mailing lists I've seen. Its a part of GNU, yes, but he's not driving development in any way. So what has Hurds utility or lack of it to do with RMS?
If that's true, then maybe there's some hope for Hurd after all. It's too bad RMS is going to take all of the credit though.
No, I didn't say that. I said that RMS places "freedom" over utility. If you read the "philosphy" documents at fsf.org you'll see that this is true.
GNU projects only become useful when a significant number of people other than RMS are involved. (or when RMS isn't involved at all) I doubt that Hurd will ever reach the critical mass required, simply because it'll be a huge pain to switch to it, and no compelling reasons to do so. Compelling reasons are unlikely to appear, because of RMS's insistence that utility is less important than what he calls "freedom".
In other words, Hurd won't have compelling features until lots of people other than RMS are working on it, but lots of people other than RMS won't be working on it until it has enough compelling features to draw these people to it.
gcc was a free, multi-platform C compiler. That was a compelling feature. Simply being a free OS is no longer compelling. Linux and the BSDs already satisfy that need. Something significant would be needed in addition. I don't think RMS is capable of pulling that off.
How long did we have to wait for gcc to get past 2.7.2? And are you aware of the whole egcs split/merge. Luckily RMS realized that he was going to have another XEmacs on his hands if he didn't allow egcs to become the "official" gcc.
Hurd will almost definitely never become something useful. Utility is not one of RMS's priorities. To RMS, the only important things are that:
it's "free", according to his personal definition
it's got GNU or RMS in the name
Of course, other that excessive kool-aid drinkers, most people place utility above those factors. I can see it now:
RMS: Upgrade to GNU/Hurd 1.5! It's 25% more Free than 1.0! user: Does it support USB2? How about my RAID controller? RMS: No, but it's compatible with GPL 3! And it has GNU in the name!
What part of Silicon valley? I've been living here for several years, and I've never heard anyone use the term "money wall". Of course, I hardly ever use ATMs anymore... my paycheck is direct-deposit, and I can withdraw money from my account at the checkout when I buy groceries.
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So they should use a standard USB protocol rather than a "roll-your-own" protocol. Saying they should completely avoid USB just because they might screw it up is cutting off your nose to spite your face. After all, if a USB CompactFlash reader can be made to work, couldn't the remote work if it used exactly the same protocol?
That's a paddle! A pretty cool looking USB paddle, but a paddle nonetheless.
I always think it's hilarious that emacs users complain about how hard it is to get out of vi when it's every bit as hard to get out of emacs.
First, you can't make a hard link to a directory.
Second, I think the real zen here is in the way you say Unix is superior to the Mac, when Macs running OS X effectively are running a variant of Unix.
The first result to that query when I tried was http://www.win.tue.nl/~kroisos/roguelike.html, which does appear to be up...
DMOZ also has the problem that many of the editors are biased. This is especially true in commercial categories, where editors will often make it difficult for competitors to get their sites listed. Yes, there are supposed to be rules against that, but it still happens. For commercial categories it's hard to find expects who are also impartial.
So if I redirect your paycheck to my bank account I'm not stealing from you, I'm stealing from your employer?
Of course, that still doesn't work for people who went to school in a different country. I moved to the US after graduating from university. Couldn't get a student card, since I wasn't a student anymore, but I couldn't get a regular card either because US banks will only check US credit history.
:-Q
Of course, now (several years later) I get about 10 credit card offers in the mail every week.
Rankings on google can be bought for a fee....
No they can't.
0?"10:30"
(yes, 0 was a valid line number on the '64)
Are you running gvim? I know some versions of RedHat have a problem where /usr/share/vim/gvimrc is a symlink to /usr/share/vim/vimrc. This causes anything in /usr/share/vim/vimrc to override your .vimrc if you're running gvim, because gvim runs: /usr/share/vim/vimrc /usr/share/vim/gvimrc
~/.vimrc
~/.gvimrc
(in that order) Perhaps Mandrake has the same packaging problem.
I can't imagine using vi even for small files -- it's the only editor where there is a sharp learning curve to quit out of the damn thing.
Emacs doesn't exactly have an intuitive way to quit either.
Second, you actually did pay for the entire drive. The software simply blocks off part of it as reserved and you don't get to use it. That hardly makes it ok.
Actually, you probably didn't. TiVo units are typically sold below cost.
I prefer modulating the shield harmonics on a triaxillating frequency.
That doesn't explain why the "post as AC" option is gone for logged-in users.
Microsoft has been determined to be a monopoly and has been convicted of monopolistic behavior.
Not exactly. They're guilty of anti-competitive behavior. "Monopolistic behavior" isn't a crime, but anti-competitive behavior is, if you're a monopoly.
While TightVNC is cool, if someone says "VNC" I think it's fair to assume they mean the original VNC, not TightVNC.
Besides, the OP seemed to be implying that VNC regulary sends screenshots, when in fact it only sends updates of the rectangles that have changed.
VNC doesn't send JPEGs, nor does it regularly send the entire screen over the wire. It only sends rectangular areas of the screen that have changed. This is potentially less efficient than sending what is effectively GDI over the wire, but it isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be. VNC works fine for running typical apps over a DSL connection, and is more than adequate for remote system administration on a LAN.
Reminds me of Tibetan sky burials.
To sum it up: the 9-11 hijackers have changed the rules, and screwed things up for all future hijackers...
...for a few years at least.
As for dragging this into a discussion on the Hurd, that becomes rather amusing, considering that RMS isn't exactly active on the Hurd mailing lists I've seen. Its a part of GNU, yes, but he's not driving development in any way. So what has Hurds utility or lack of it to do with RMS?
If that's true, then maybe there's some hope for Hurd after all. It's too bad RMS is going to take all of the credit though.
No, I didn't say that. I said that RMS places "freedom" over utility. If you read the "philosphy" documents at fsf.org you'll see that this is true.
GNU projects only become useful when a significant number of people other than RMS are involved. (or when RMS isn't involved at all) I doubt that Hurd will ever reach the critical mass required, simply because it'll be a huge pain to switch to it, and no compelling reasons to do so. Compelling reasons are unlikely to appear, because of RMS's insistence that utility is less important than what he calls "freedom".
In other words, Hurd won't have compelling features until lots of people other than RMS are working on it, but lots of people other than RMS won't be working on it until it has enough compelling features to draw these people to it.
gcc was a free, multi-platform C compiler. That was a compelling feature. Simply being a free OS is no longer compelling. Linux and the BSDs already satisfy that need. Something significant would be needed in addition. I don't think RMS is capable of pulling that off.
How long did we have to wait for gcc to get past 2.7.2? And are you aware of the whole egcs split/merge. Luckily RMS realized that he was going to have another XEmacs on his hands if he didn't allow egcs to become the "official" gcc.
- it's "free", according to his personal definition
- it's got GNU or RMS in the name
Of course, other that excessive kool-aid drinkers, most people place utility above those factors. I can see it now:RMS: Upgrade to GNU/Hurd 1.5! It's 25% more Free than 1.0!
user: Does it support USB2? How about my RAID controller?
RMS: No, but it's compatible with GPL 3! And it has GNU in the name!
What part of Silicon valley? I've been living here for several years, and I've never heard anyone use the term "money wall". Of course, I hardly ever use ATMs anymore... my paycheck is direct-deposit, and I can withdraw money from my account at the checkout when I buy groceries.