If what the client needs is a new ability provided by that code, rather than a product they wish to distribute which this code is part of, then the approach seems logical.
Many OSS projects, which are already large and useful, offer someone to sponsor a certain missing feature that they need. It is still releases as open source, and the client gets the feature they need, so everyone is happy.
From expirience of both using and developing application - if it NEEDS a splash screen or a "loading..." progress bar, IT ALREADY MEANS it's too damn slow!
Most people will only consider moving to something else if what they have doesn't work for them. For most people, Windows Explorer isn't "broken" enough (or at all) to look for alternatives.
Internet Explorer, however, has many flaws, much behind in standard compliance, and missing modern features, and therefore there is something going on in that field.
that people who are too lazy and / or stupid to read and understand dialog boxes, surely won't read your comment which is even marked as too long by slashcode!
Saying that making people pay for e-mail because someones uses e-mail to send SPAM, is like saying that people should pay for pings because someones uses pings for DoS attacks.
The best solutions (but hard to implement due to the stupidity of a major portion of computer users, like those who open attachments and spread MyDoom) is to have verifiable sender and reciever. I.e. have e-mails digitally signed, so that you'll be sure that it's send from that specific someone specifically for you. That would actually also stop e-mails from viruses who fake the "From:" field.
Perhaps if digital signing and verifying will be made seamless in the mail (STMP and POP3/IMAP/HTTP servers) servers, it will actually work!
Everybody are talking about the increased performance in 2.6 due to the new O(1) sheduler, but what other differences are there from 2.4 which also make it faster, if any?
The "get-the-facts" sub-website is part of M$'s campaign againts Linux. Like in every campaign, reasearches supporting it are quoted. They do not even claim that all researches came to that conclusion, but rather just show that ones that did.
Everybody bashed Microsoft for it's integration of Win/IE/MSO, but when KDE does it - it's ok. This is to say that since if KDE decided to do a similar integration, then there must be a reason, and Microsoft's programmers probably had a similar reason. So the blame on Microsoft should *not* be about the actual integration, but rather for disallowing others to make their own integration!
From the FAQ:May I cancel my contribution? Unfortunately, out of respect to the extraordinary legal reporting burdens placed on candidates for federal office, you cannot cancel a contribution through Amazon.com.
Well, allright, you can then convince them by showing that OO can export to PDF painlessly and easily.
Even though it's a tiny subset of the features I use in OO, and I love all the configuration options there that MSO lacks, it's complex to explain to laymen, so just say that is saves PDFs.
If 64bit is slower than 32bit, then... 32bit is slower than 16bit, therefore... 16bit is slower than 8bit, so... 8bit is slower than 4bit, which means... 4bit is slower than 2bit, in which case... 2bit is slower than 1bit, which concludes that... 1bit is faster than 64bit!!!
Like those sites that let you choose which e-mail domain you want, perhaps google-mail will let you choose which one of those domains you want for your e-mail at google?
Slashdot Mirror
If what the client needs is a new ability provided by that code, rather than a product they wish to distribute which this code is part of, then the approach seems logical. Many OSS projects, which are already large and useful, offer someone to sponsor a certain missing feature that they need. It is still releases as open source, and the client gets the feature they need, so everyone is happy.
From expirience of both using and developing application - if it NEEDS a splash screen or a "loading..." progress bar, IT ALREADY MEANS it's too damn slow!
How can one actually have many Central Processing Units?
I mean, I know there are multiprocessor computers nowdays, but what is then central there?!
"If it's not broken - don't fix it."
Most people will only consider moving to something else if what they have doesn't work for them. For most people, Windows Explorer isn't "broken" enough (or at all) to look for alternatives.
Internet Explorer, however, has many flaws, much behind in standard compliance, and missing modern features, and therefore there is something going on in that field.
Let me correct you. Not everybody use the explorer windows file browser.
Check out Directory Opus. Highly recommended!
It's meant to tell you that it's working well. After all, BSOD is one of the most important modules.
- it can run on anything from wrist-watches to supercomputers and clusters.
- you can choose to install it on a server without any desktop, not to mention customizing every little bit of it if you like
- it's free
"16 terabytes ought to be enough for everyone."
Metallic Noise Hears YOU!
You said you e-mail people the *nicer* version... you meant one still as long? Does anyone actually read all of that before they call you again??
Please share the brief and readable version, so that we all could send it to those who call often on us.
that people who are too lazy and / or stupid to read and understand dialog boxes, surely won't read your comment which is even marked as too long by slashcode!
Saying that making people pay for e-mail because someones uses e-mail to send SPAM, is like saying that people should pay for pings because someones uses pings for DoS attacks.
The best solutions (but hard to implement due to the stupidity of a major portion of computer users, like those who open attachments and spread MyDoom) is to have verifiable sender and reciever. I.e. have e-mails digitally signed, so that you'll be sure that it's send from that specific someone specifically for you. That would actually also stop e-mails from viruses who fake the "From:" field.
Perhaps if digital signing and verifying will be made seamless in the mail (STMP and POP3/IMAP/HTTP servers) servers, it will actually work!
Everybody are talking about the increased performance in 2.6 due to the new O(1) sheduler, but what other differences are there from 2.4 which also make it faster, if any?
The "get-the-facts" sub-website is part of M$'s campaign againts Linux.
Like in every campaign, reasearches supporting it are quoted.
They do not even claim that all researches came to that conclusion, but rather just show that ones that did.
Everybody bashed Microsoft for it's integration of Win/IE/MSO, but when KDE does it - it's ok. This is to say that since if KDE decided to do a similar integration, then there must be a reason, and Microsoft's programmers probably had a similar reason. So the blame on Microsoft should *not* be about the actual integration, but rather for disallowing others to make their own integration!
First thing I always do for my friends is uninstall MSN messanger immediatly! They are always greatful.
real *nix users compose man pages!
Just like Real SlashDot hackers do not use WYSIWYG comment posting forms, but rather just write the HTML code?
Oh, wait.
From the FAQ: May I cancel my contribution?
Unfortunately, out of respect to the extraordinary legal reporting burdens placed on candidates for federal office, you cannot cancel a contribution through Amazon.com.
Well, allright, you can then convince them by showing that OO can export to PDF painlessly and easily.
Even though it's a tiny subset of the features I use in OO, and I love all the configuration options there that MSO lacks, it's complex to explain to laymen, so just say that is saves PDFs.
If 64bit is slower than 32bit, then...
32bit is slower than 16bit, therefore...
16bit is slower than 8bit, so...
8bit is slower than 4bit, which means...
4bit is slower than 2bit, in which case...
2bit is slower than 1bit, which concludes that...
1bit is faster than 64bit!!!
apples -- to -- apples
Like those sites that let you choose which e-mail domain you want, perhaps google-mail will let you choose which one of those domains you want for your e-mail at google?
There.