Bleh... I shouldn't have tackled everything point by point, coz that was not my point;).
My point basically is that the internet/web/... has surpassed any purpose and shouldn't be analyzed that much. And people who want to show their stuff on the web can pretty much do that the way they want to.
If Flash was only used for adverts, then I wouldn't mind. I'd just never install the Flash plugin.
This is the reason why if flash was only used for adverts, it wouldn't be used for adverts:)
ps: Contrary to what I posted earlier there apparentely is already one hell of a tool that creates svg-graphics, namely sodipody.
* I thought the fundamental design goal of the web was fail-safe information exchange?
* Normal "artists" don't ask people to start messing with the clay, the artist make it and the people have a right to watch or even buy it.
* Yeah, browsers were intentionally used to display html only, but things change (even html, think xhtml, dhtml, javascript, css,... ). These days browsers are used to display multimedia as well as regular flavored info. And why are you so upset webmasters want to make a few bucks off off advertising if they can't get their money directly from their readers? On tv that's a fairly normal practice. Without ads most of the sites won't even exist.
* I don't even bother with this one, just insert more bs - counter-bs here.
Don't get me wrong: I don't like flash either, but for the simple (and better founded) claim that it "sometimes just gets on my nerves".
I really look forward to mozilla's svg effords, and hope they implement their current work ( http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ to get it, check http://www.croczilla.com/svg/ for samples) in the main mozilla releases. I'm sure that would a) give some webdev's a nudge to start learning and creating svg-content and b)Start off a few open source svg-editor projects.
You have to decide for yourself which drawer is appropriate to store your socks in, or even whether storing them in a drawer is appropriate at all.
Yes, but on the other hand "~/socks" might be enough instead of the
"/house/bedroom/left_closet/undies/socks" (I sure use(d) this system).
I can't count the times when I had to search for my VB.NET project (yeah yeah) in "h:\-=SCHOOL=-\Project\...\", "c:\documents...\desktop\project..." or "c:\....\my documents\...".
After a while of messing around in linux I started putting everything (whell.. a lot, anyways) in ~/ . Saved me a lot of hassle.
I still use nautilus the classical way ("You don't know how to use GConf? Tough luck!"... "Oh... we díd mention there's this thing called gconf-editor, did we? I'm pretty sure of it... It's a pretty cool feature: you can change all these settings no-where to be found in edit->preferences; you should really check it out") although I don't have any gripes with spatial.
Not too many "other sources" available.
Ehm, that's kinda the entire reason for these arrests. You should check out Kazaa, tons of sources to be found there.
I got this mail under linux which I was unsure it was legitimate or a virus. Not having ntfs support compiled in I mailed it to myself and rebooted to windows to scan it. Retrieving my mail I just got one: My ISP telling me I'm most likely infected and I noticed they blocked my access to their mailserver for about a day (I still was able to use http and such). I was quite impressed...
Insightful my.. eh... derriere.
So free beer is only free if you don't consider your time drinking it worthless? Next time I'll tell the waiter he owes me 3 bucks for that half hour - the price of that beverage.
I play around with linux in my free time.
Seriously, time = money only from nine to five.
Scrub those floors, disinfect the tub, vacüum everyday, install those air-purifiers!
And amidst all that paranoïa don't forget to ask yourself where that latest allergy came from!
Come on! A body nééds those everyday bacteria to arm itself or it crumbles after the weakest punch it gets.
"About 80 percent of the organisms they found in the flaky scum were in the same genetic families as those known to infect wounds or cause problems for people with AIDS, cancer or other immune system disorders."
Yep, most people won't be bothered...by that percentage of microbes found on curtains, which have also been spotted in other circumstances for causing problems to people with immune system disorders.(but that just doesn't sound as sensational, does it?)
It was my believe you had to enable vsync to get a better expierence.
High and sudden differences in fps (200, 90, 150,...) can give a weird mouselag sensation. Enabling vsync would cap the fps for example on 80hz, which gives a nice steady expierience. (whell, this was true for UT1, don't know 'bout other games actually)
Our optimizationism (tm) also has some constructive consequences: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=108718 (gets more interesting towards the end) is a nice example. Since we all want to have the latest and "greatest" these fine developers (I am sure other distros have em too...) are squishing every bug they see on their way to get a full GCC 3.4 - compiled system. I'm sure some of these fixes will find their way to all distros.
Thanks for reminding me why I fled RH and Slack after ~1 week each (I must've installed them 10 times during that period). So with as good as no linux-experience I printed out the manual, spent 2 evenings making sure I understood everything, downloaded the cd and installed it. I've been a happy Linux-lover ever since... still running the same install of that first time more than a year ago. Chances are I would've had the same experience with debian, but I just never got around to it;).
Then again, this is just mindless whining of Gentoo Zea... *grabs dictionary*... ah no, just -User.
Still I think it's a good idea to mention if software for Linux is proprietary. That just saved me the trouble of clicking the link and checking it out;).
ps: I recently visited a project trying to "harness the power of GPU's". I think that project was something like seti/folding/ud/... but tried to have all the calculations be made by the GPU of your 3d card. If someone knows what I'm talking about: please post it, I can't find it anymore;)
... and those are the ones I use. In the beginning ofcourse I HAD to try all those patched mm/ck/gaming/gentoo/...-kernels coz they'd be all this wack and such, but after my occasional kernel panics I gravitated to the dev-sources. No problems with the development-kernel whatsoever. (ah no, I'm gonna be honest: 2.6.6_rc1 (i think) won't load my nvidia driver, so I using the 2.6.5 until I find some time to find out why).
Twice the performance? I only looked at [H]'s review (real-world gaming benchmarks) and even though it was an increase over the 9800 XT, it sure wasn't 100%! Then again, results based on the *de facto* benchmarks of the moment are always more reliable than random in-game results:$. Image quality has really improved tho. Those crispy textures are really neato.
I just hope this monster may push down the radeon 9600XT's price a bit more by the time I saved enough money:).
Yeah, but I do have the idea that there are less "Bad guys" in Open Source - land, because of the encouragement to submit bugreports. In open source you get acknowledgment from the authors and community, there aren't many other places to search for an ego-boost in closed-source land than on hacker-boards.
What I mean with the above is that I think that the chances that "Good Guys" spot the error are greater than that "Bad Guys" find and exploit them in OSS than in Closed Source Softw.
Seriously though: First thing I thought when reading this article was: "Now this is what patents are all about". A company that innovates like this deserves to be the only one that may use its' invention and be protected from other companies that would otherwise just copy the specs and immediately compete on the same level.
If I understand right then MS provides you a licence to use their "innovation" (I leave in the middle if it's a real innovation or not) for free, provided you allow MS and everyone else a free licence on your product?
So you can use it as long as you give it back to the community?
hmm... What a quaint idea.
is that they'll use a modified licenced scanner from mcAfee/Norton/... (probably mcAfee, since hotmail also uses it).
Just like they did for their defragger and zipper.
What good is 9.000 rpm's if you're still in first gear?
Quite frankly, I'm happy with my "Athlon XP 2500+" instead of my "1.8 ghz which outperforms a P4 2.5ghz"
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My point basically is that the internet/web/... has surpassed any purpose and shouldn't be analyzed that much. And people who want to show their stuff on the web can pretty much do that the way they want to.
If Flash was only used for adverts, then I wouldn't mind. I'd just never install the Flash plugin.
This is the reason why if flash was only used for adverts, it wouldn't be used for adverts :)
ps: Contrary to what I posted earlier there apparentely is already one hell of a tool that creates svg-graphics, namely sodipody.* Normal "artists" don't ask people to start messing with the clay, the artist make it and the people have a right to watch or even buy it.
* Yeah, browsers were intentionally used to display html only, but things change (even html, think xhtml, dhtml, javascript, css, ... ). These days browsers are used to display multimedia as well as regular flavored info. And why are you so upset webmasters want to make a few bucks off off advertising if they can't get their money directly from their readers? On tv that's a fairly normal practice. Without ads most of the sites won't even exist.
* I don't even bother with this one, just insert more bs - counter-bs here.
Don't get me wrong: I don't like flash either, but for the simple (and better founded) claim that it "sometimes just gets on my nerves".I really look forward to mozilla's svg effords, and hope they implement their current work ( http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ to get it, check http://www.croczilla.com/svg/ for samples) in the main mozilla releases. I'm sure that would
a) give some webdev's a nudge to start learning and creating svg-content and
b)Start off a few open source svg-editor projects.
I thought "only accept cookies from the originating website" was the solution against these tracking-cookies?
You have to decide for yourself which drawer is appropriate to store your socks in, or even whether storing them in a drawer is appropriate at all.
... "Oh... we díd mention there's this thing called gconf-editor, did we? I'm pretty sure of it... It's a pretty cool feature: you can change all these settings no-where to be found in edit->preferences; you should really check it out") although I don't have any gripes with spatial.
Yes, but on the other hand "~/socks" might be enough instead of the "/house/bedroom/left_closet/undies/socks" (I sure use(d) this system).
I can't count the times when I had to search for my VB.NET project (yeah yeah) in "h:\-=SCHOOL=-\Project\...\", "c:\documents...\desktop\project..." or "c:\....\my documents\...". After a while of messing around in linux I started putting everything (whell.. a lot, anyways) in ~/ . Saved me a lot of hassle.
I still use nautilus the classical way ("You don't know how to use GConf? Tough luck!"
Not too many "other sources" available.
Ehm, that's kinda the entire reason for these arrests. You should check out Kazaa, tons of sources to be found there.
I got this mail under linux which I was unsure it was legitimate or a virus. Not having ntfs support compiled in I mailed it to myself and rebooted to windows to scan it.
Retrieving my mail I just got one: My ISP telling me I'm most likely infected and I noticed they blocked my access to their mailserver for about a day (I still was able to use http and such).
I was quite impressed...
ps: The ISP is Telenet (Belgium)
Insightful my.. eh... derriere.
So free beer is only free if you don't consider your time drinking it worthless? Next time I'll tell the waiter he owes me 3 bucks for that half hour - the price of that beverage.
I play around with linux in my free time.
Seriously, time = money only from nine to five.
Scrub those floors, disinfect the tub, vacüum everyday, install those air-purifiers! And amidst all that paranoïa don't forget to ask yourself where that latest allergy came from!
Come on! A body nééds those everyday bacteria to arm itself or it crumbles after the weakest punch it gets.
"About 80 percent of the organisms they found in the flaky scum were in the same genetic families as those known to infect wounds or cause problems for people with AIDS, cancer or other immune system disorders."Yep, most people won't be bothered...by that percentage of microbes found on curtains, which have also been spotted in other circumstances for causing problems to people with immune system disorders.(but that just doesn't sound as sensational, does it?)
It was my believe you had to enable vsync to get a better expierence. ...) can give a weird mouselag sensation. Enabling vsync would cap the fps for example on 80hz, which gives a nice steady expierience. (whell, this was true for UT1, don't know 'bout other games actually)
High and sudden differences in fps (200, 90, 150,
revdep-update (im 85% sure that is the name) :)
Make that 50% sure and you're right: revdep-rebuild
Hehe :)
Our optimizationism (tm) also has some constructive consequences: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=108718 (gets more interesting towards the end) is a nice example.
Since we all want to have the latest and "greatest" these fine developers (I am sure other distros have em too...) are squishing every bug they see on their way to get a full GCC 3.4 - compiled system.
I'm sure some of these fixes will find their way to all distros.
Thanks for reminding me why I fled RH and Slack after ~1 week each (I must've installed them 10 times during that period). ;) .
... ah no, just -User.
So with as good as no linux-experience I printed out the manual, spent 2 evenings making sure I understood everything, downloaded the cd and installed it.
I've been a happy Linux-lover ever since... still running the same install of that first time more than a year ago. Chances are I would've had the same experience with debian, but I just never got around to it
Then again, this is just mindless whining of Gentoo Zea... *grabs dictionary*
I wouldn't mind seeing a little bluster from them, what they're thinking.
So wouldn't SCOTried it once, but the bread couldn't get out.
So I put it back on the floor.
Still I think it's a good idea to mention if software for Linux is proprietary. ;) .
;)
That just saved me the trouble of clicking the link and checking it out
ps: I recently visited a project trying to "harness the power of GPU's". I think that project was something like seti/folding/ud/... but tried to have all the calculations be made by the GPU of your 3d card.
If someone knows what I'm talking about: please post it, I can't find it anymore
... and those are the ones I use.
In the beginning ofcourse I HAD to try all those patched mm/ck/gaming/gentoo/...-kernels coz they'd be all this wack and such, but after my occasional kernel panics I gravitated to the dev-sources.
No problems with the development-kernel whatsoever.
(ah no, I'm gonna be honest: 2.6.6_rc1 (i think) won't load my nvidia driver, so I using the 2.6.5 until I find some time to find out why).
Twice the performance? :$ .
:).
I only looked at [H]'s review (real-world gaming benchmarks) and even though it was an increase over the 9800 XT, it sure wasn't 100%! Then again, results based on the *de facto* benchmarks of the moment are always more reliable than random in-game results
Image quality has really improved tho. Those crispy textures are really neato.
I just hope this monster may push down the radeon 9600XT's price a bit more by the time I saved enough money
When I'm not feeling good about myself, I just take a bath.
wx Still relies on GTK for X11.
Yeah, but I do have the idea that there are less "Bad guys" in Open Source - land, because of the encouragement to submit bugreports.
In open source you get acknowledgment from the authors and community, there aren't many other places to search for an ego-boost in closed-source land than on hacker-boards.
What I mean with the above is that I think that the chances that "Good Guys" spot the error are greater than that "Bad Guys" find and exploit them in OSS than in Closed Source Softw.
True, All the G"'s and "K"'s can really obscure the meaning of the name.
Hehe :)
Seriously though:
First thing I thought when reading this article was: "Now this is what patents are all about".
A company that innovates like this deserves to be the only one that may use its' invention and be protected from other companies that would otherwise just copy the specs and immediately compete on the same level.
If I understand right then MS provides you a licence to use their "innovation" (I leave in the middle if it's a real innovation or not) for free, provided you allow MS and everyone else a free licence on your product? So you can use it as long as you give it back to the community? hmm... What a quaint idea.
is that they'll use a modified licenced scanner from mcAfee/Norton/... (probably mcAfee, since hotmail also uses it). Just like they did for their defragger and zipper.
What good is 9.000 rpm's if you're still in first gear? Quite frankly, I'm happy with my "Athlon XP 2500+" instead of my "1.8 ghz which outperforms a P4 2.5ghz"