I'm not sure what you mean. Each and every one of the plugins from beryl are in compiz-fusion, since it's the direct descendant of beryl merged with compiz. Looking through the options (I'm using compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.5.2+git20070917-0ubuntu1), I found and enabled one for each and every one of the issues you mentioned. Most of the options were in the exact same place I remember them being in beryl. Perhaps you don't have all the proper packages installed? Anyway, saying that "3d GUIs on linux took a huge step backwards" is unwarranted; you can always just use the version of beryl that you like. Regardless, compiz-fusion is a superset of the old beryl, I have only found enhancements so far, from what I can tell they didn't remove anything.
Maybe you just like to complain. It seems like any restrictions at all are unacceptable to you. The way I see it, free with ads for a week is better than paying apple for drm. If you want unfettered access to the file forever, you can always bittorrent it.
As with many things gnome-related, the configuration utility is not installed by default so as not to confuse users. Advanced users who care to adjust the eye-candy will presumably know how to get the software, i.e. apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager . In this case, I think it's a wise move, since this utility is as insanely fine-grained as the old beryl configutation manager, except it has about 10 new plugins. OCD people could spend hours tweaking the window spring model alone.
(kind of a dead thread at this pont but what the hell...)
True, that would be fairly simple to implement as an apache module, but ff any companies actually start doing this all adblock plus needs to do is configure itself to download everything and strip the ads from the dom pre-render. That's literally the only thing a website can forcibly find out about you: what you've downloaded. Everything else can be altered by the user, from the user agent string, to some kind of nefarious javascript that attempts to see if you're displaying ads. That is, after all, the point of javascript. It's a client side scripting language and can't be "trusted" by the server. At this point most companies have little to fear from adbock, since hardly anyone uses it, and as other people have pointed out, those that do rarely click on ads. But if real people start to use it, most web sites' business models are in jepoardy.
This frustrates me. In common parlance, wireless APs are almost universally referred to as "routers." But here, "router" is colloquial for "switch" or "residential gateway." The original definition, which is still used, refers to an enterprise-level product to connect different subnets. I'm all for usage defining language, but this muddies the issue quite a bit. It doesn't help that most companies participate in the misnaming.
annoying, but excusable. The techs there aren't likely trained to diagnose problems in linux, and even if they are, they can't be 100% sure the problem is not some stupid kernel or driver issue. So they have to install their familiar windows environment. If you had used something like ghost to backup, it would barely be an issue.
This method won't work, as it would block all non-javascript user-agents, as well as text-mode browsers and some screen-readers, which would be illegal under section 508 of the ADA.
My school (Illinois at Urbana Champaign) charges almost double for engineering students. I don't like it, but it makes sense; starting salaries are commensurate. Pity the fool, though, who gets a computer science degree only to become a social worker.
The very nature of this beast makes me guess that the police are only storing the details of cars which match their stolen car list and deleting every other data. It's so nice of you to give them the benefit of the doubt, but the article specifically states:
Each morning, Springdale Lt. Bill Fields downloads 380,000 of the most recent plates of cars entered into the information's center's system. You object to the difficulty of scaling this system up to a nationwide level, which I still don't think would be a problem, but for this one department, it's a simple matter of doing a two or three column database entry each time a cop passes a car. Then at the end of his shift, dump those ~10,000 entries or so into a larger database. This kind of stuff can be handled with very modest hardware.
(in iPhone-user-friendly plain-text.) If the iPhone is anything like my n800 there's zero chance that it will ever load a slashdot comments thread with more than 200 comments, unless you use the stupid old static version and browse at +4.
What's the point of reading something where every fact is spun to reflect its author's biases? I admit there's a significant demographic which likes being fed "news" this way, hence the success of talk radio and fox news.
This would definitely not pass wikipedia's NPOV test. The whole article amounts to a shrill rant accusing anyone who says anything negative about the iPhone of being a Microsoft shill. roughly drafted indeed.
It's not unnecessary, this comment is ignorant. The iphone developers certainly have access to the SDK. The fact that the iPhone has a web browser that supports standards does not make up for the fact that its hardware is locked down. Javascript does not have access to the actual hardware. you can do some cool things with it, but you can't really take advantage of the capabilities of the system. Any truly killer app will be native.
Apple is trying to defuse outrage over their refusal to provide an SDK (for "security"...) by saying "people can use rich web apps, it's the same thing!" This is incredibly disingenuous and I hope I'm not the only one who won't be getting an iPhone because of it's closed nature.
he means being able to type things like 'wp slashdot' to go to the wikipedia slashdot page. It's incredibly useful and is one of the reasons I can't even consider using safari in real life.
Right now there is not a SINGLE story on the front page that is unrelated to apple. I know the WWDC is today, but be reasonable. 3% market share should not equal 100% slashdot front page share, even when there's a conference.
RTFA. The comcast tech couldn't figure out what was wrong, neither could his home base, and neither could the relevant people at microsoft who should have been able to. If the cable industry makes it this difficult to watch tv on your computer, I'd be inclined to agree with you about the writing being on the wall. However, this is still very nichey stuff. once their revenue stream truly becomes endangered, I'd wager that things will mysteriously become easier.
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I'm not sure what you mean. Each and every one of the plugins from beryl are in compiz-fusion, since it's the direct descendant of beryl merged with compiz. Looking through the options (I'm using compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.5.2+git20070917-0ubuntu1), I found and enabled one for each and every one of the issues you mentioned. Most of the options were in the exact same place I remember them being in beryl. Perhaps you don't have all the proper packages installed? Anyway, saying that "3d GUIs on linux took a huge step backwards" is unwarranted; you can always just use the version of beryl that you like. Regardless, compiz-fusion is a superset of the old beryl, I have only found enhancements so far, from what I can tell they didn't remove anything.
Maybe you just like to complain. It seems like any restrictions at all are unacceptable to you. The way I see it, free with ads for a week is better than paying apple for drm. If you want unfettered access to the file forever, you can always bittorrent it.
As with many things gnome-related, the configuration utility is not installed by default so as not to confuse users. Advanced users who care to adjust the eye-candy will presumably know how to get the software, i.e. apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager . In this case, I think it's a wise move, since this utility is as insanely fine-grained as the old beryl configutation manager, except it has about 10 new plugins. OCD people could spend hours tweaking the window spring model alone.
(kind of a dead thread at this pont but what the hell...) True, that would be fairly simple to implement as an apache module, but ff any companies actually start doing this all adblock plus needs to do is configure itself to download everything and strip the ads from the dom pre-render. That's literally the only thing a website can forcibly find out about you: what you've downloaded. Everything else can be altered by the user, from the user agent string, to some kind of nefarious javascript that attempts to see if you're displaying ads. That is, after all, the point of javascript. It's a client side scripting language and can't be "trusted" by the server. At this point most companies have little to fear from adbock, since hardly anyone uses it, and as other people have pointed out, those that do rarely click on ads. But if real people start to use it, most web sites' business models are in jepoardy.
This frustrates me. In common parlance, wireless APs are almost universally referred to as "routers." But here, "router" is colloquial for "switch" or "residential gateway." The original definition, which is still used, refers to an enterprise-level product to connect different subnets. I'm all for usage defining language, but this muddies the issue quite a bit. It doesn't help that most companies participate in the misnaming.
annoying, but excusable. The techs there aren't likely trained to diagnose problems in linux, and even if they are, they can't be 100% sure the problem is not some stupid kernel or driver issue. So they have to install their familiar windows environment. If you had used something like ghost to backup, it would barely be an issue.
This method won't work, as it would block all non-javascript user-agents, as well as text-mode browsers and some screen-readers, which would be illegal under section 508 of the ADA.
My school (Illinois at Urbana Champaign) charges almost double for engineering students. I don't like it, but it makes sense; starting salaries are commensurate. Pity the fool, though, who gets a computer science degree only to become a social worker.
see: star trek. Or just about any "universe" based fiction whatsoever with more than one installment.
they just released the video and actual proof yesterday, although reports have been around for months
What's the point of reading something where every fact is spun to reflect its author's biases? I admit there's a significant demographic which likes being fed "news" this way, hence the success of talk radio and fox news.
This would definitely not pass wikipedia's NPOV test. The whole article amounts to a shrill rant accusing anyone who says anything negative about the iPhone of being a Microsoft shill. roughly drafted indeed.
Neither can firefox, until version 3 is released.
thanks for the unbiased commentary, The PS3 Will Fail!
"magical clicky clicker?" Sounds like a certain commander took the brown acid.
It's not unnecessary, this comment is ignorant. The iphone developers certainly have access to the SDK. The fact that the iPhone has a web browser that supports standards does not make up for the fact that its hardware is locked down. Javascript does not have access to the actual hardware. you can do some cool things with it, but you can't really take advantage of the capabilities of the system. Any truly killer app will be native.
Apple is trying to defuse outrage over their refusal to provide an SDK (for "security"...) by saying "people can use rich web apps, it's the same thing!" This is incredibly disingenuous and I hope I'm not the only one who won't be getting an iPhone because of it's closed nature.
wow. that's kind of eerie.
he means being able to type things like 'wp slashdot' to go to the wikipedia slashdot page. It's incredibly useful and is one of the reasons I can't even consider using safari in real life.
Right now there is not a SINGLE story on the front page that is unrelated to apple. I know the WWDC is today, but be reasonable. 3% market share should not equal 100% slashdot front page share, even when there's a conference.
RTFA. The comcast tech couldn't figure out what was wrong, neither could his home base, and neither could the relevant people at microsoft who should have been able to. If the cable industry makes it this difficult to watch tv on your computer, I'd be inclined to agree with you about the writing being on the wall. However, this is still very nichey stuff. once their revenue stream truly becomes endangered, I'd wager that things will mysteriously become easier.
sloppy markup. that text has got an anchor tag around it with no href attribute.