This is asinine, and is the single largest failing of the IO Slave mechanism.
Exactly! This is especially idiotic when opening a 1.4 gig (or 4.1 gig or larger!) video file. On my laptop with an SSD, where my/tmp is a tmpfs ramdisk, this is going to fail miserably.
That's great, if you're only using KDE apps. What about apps that are neither KDE/Qt or Gnome? VLC is the first that comes to mind. xmms2 is another. Or, what if I want to use WinAmp through Wine? All of this just works in MATE/Gnome/Cinnamon with gvfs.
The media playing apps should be file system agnostic -- they shouldn't have to know about URLs or network protocols.
I've teetered between MATE and KDE for the last couple of years -- they're both great, but I like KDE's interface and look/feel a bit more. Also, Dolphin is, IMHO the best file manager for Linux.
But, the thing that still pisses me off about KDE is the handling of cifs mounting (a la smb://). In MATE (or Cinnamon or Gnome2), if I mount a share with smb:// in the file manager (Nautilus, or the newer ones), I get an actual cifs mount. Now, if I open a file on that mount with a photo viewer, or a media player (like VLC), the file manager throws a locally-mounted and accessible file path to the application.
Not so with KDE. Doing the same thing from Dolphin throws the URL of the file (smb://server/share/file.ext) to the application, and the application usually has no effing idea what to do with this. So, I end up either copying the file to my local hdd and opening it from there, or adding an entry to fstab to get a real mount (which is not practical if mounting a new share on someone else's server.)
The gvfs way is better than the KIO way.
Comparing the percentage of executions by race to the population data shown lower on the page, I don't think your statement is correct. More whites are executed, but more blacks have pending executions.
Yeah, you hear that everybody? If you're not privy to insect population control techniques (I mean, who doesn't discuss this topic regularly at dinner parties?), or you disapprove of Monsanto, you're a dolt. A DOLT! Mythosaz has you all on notice, and it's a good thing we have people like him or her to keep us all in check.
So, stop being *cough* dolts, and educate yourselves.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Maybe the first time, or the second. But when there's a pattern of obvious and blatant refusal of compliance, suspicion should certainly direct one's course of action. How else to find the truth?
Let's just stop all technological advancement until we overthrow the US government.
Nice straw man, man! Who called for the overthrow of the US gov't or the cessation of technological advancement? My point was that you're labeling people who are rightly suspicious of the motives behind a government-mandated kill switch as paranoid. Their suspicion is vigilance and skepticism, but not (at least in the pejorative sense) paranoia. If you think there's not potential for tyrannical abuse of this technology, you're naive.
The difference between your apparent misunderstanding of my position, and what I'd really advocate is this: You think I want to stop all technological advancement that could potentially be abused by the government. Actually, I just want full control of any technology I own. I do not want my cellphone or laptop camera to be activated unless I activate it. I do not want the mic or GPS on my cellphone to be active unless I'm using it. This is not too much to ask for, and is actually what the expectation ought to be when buying and using and use any of these devices. Sadly, though, as we've learned through recent whistle-blown information, this is not the case.
if humanity in general was as negative and paranoid towards every bit of technological change
There was a time when the idea that the government would capture and store every phone conversation and email of its citizens was paranoid. There was a time, not too long ago, that nobody would ever have believed that we'd have naked body scanners at the airport -- people like you would call anyone claiming this as a possibility "paranoid." Drone surveillance of the masses? Paranoid. Law enforcement roadblocks for obligatory cheek swabs? Paranoid. National database of private medical records available to unelected government entities? Paranoid
Fuck you and your labels -- you and your naivete. If a new technology can be used for control, obviously, it will be.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she'd rather see companies pay more in taxes and fund schools that way, rather than relying on their charity or free software.
No surprise there. To the teachers unions, throwing money at the problem is always the answer. They always claim that if they just had more funding, they'd be able to buy more books and supplies (or software), or shrink class sizes. But, if you provide the necessary materials for free, well then, that's just not good enough. They're like the pan handler on the street corner holding the sign that says, "Will work for food." If you try to offer them work and/or food, though, they decline -- they just want money.
Each and every one of your arguments in favor of Windows 8 would also be applicable to DOS. Uptime? Stability? Yes, good... welcome to the last decade of operating systems. How about usability?
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Exactly! This is especially idiotic when opening a 1.4 gig (or 4.1 gig or larger!) video file. On my laptop with an SSD, where my /tmp is a tmpfs ramdisk, this is going to fail miserably.
That's great, if you're only using KDE apps. What about apps that are neither KDE/Qt or Gnome? VLC is the first that comes to mind. xmms2 is another. Or, what if I want to use WinAmp through Wine? All of this just works in MATE/Gnome/Cinnamon with gvfs.
The media playing apps should be file system agnostic -- they shouldn't have to know about URLs or network protocols.
I've teetered between MATE and KDE for the last couple of years -- they're both great, but I like KDE's interface and look/feel a bit more. Also, Dolphin is, IMHO the best file manager for Linux.
But, the thing that still pisses me off about KDE is the handling of cifs mounting (a la smb://). In MATE (or Cinnamon or Gnome2), if I mount a share with smb:// in the file manager (Nautilus, or the newer ones), I get an actual cifs mount. Now, if I open a file on that mount with a photo viewer, or a media player (like VLC), the file manager throws a locally-mounted and accessible file path to the application.
Not so with KDE. Doing the same thing from Dolphin throws the URL of the file (smb://server/share/file.ext) to the application, and the application usually has no effing idea what to do with this. So, I end up either copying the file to my local hdd and opening it from there, or adding an entry to fstab to get a real mount (which is not practical if mounting a new share on someone else's server.) The gvfs way is better than the KIO way.
The best scene release 3D TV? The opposite of a "nuked" 3D TV?
...but, don't look back. Look forward. Let's keep the freedom intact.
Pre-installed apps are configured as "system apps". You have to be root to remove them.
Anticipate all questions (smart or dumb), and create a howto/faq addressing each one.
They should also charge according to how close you're sitting to the screen, and how many speakers you have.
On what data are you basing your statement? I thought it was interesting, but wanted to verify. Google search: "statistics death row executions race"
First result:
Race of death row inmates executed since 1976 (US).
Comparing the percentage of executions by race to the population data shown lower on the page, I don't think your statement is correct. More whites are executed, but more blacks have pending executions.
Yeah, you hear that everybody? If you're not privy to insect population control techniques (I mean, who doesn't discuss this topic regularly at dinner parties?), or you disapprove of Monsanto, you're a dolt. A DOLT! Mythosaz has you all on notice, and it's a good thing we have people like him or her to keep us all in check.
So, stop being *cough* dolts, and educate yourselves.
You inspired me to try installing my old version (5.08d) in wine to see what would happen. Works great!
Get an old copy, because it still whips the llama's ass.
SOPA
Maybe the first time, or the second. But when there's a pattern of obvious and blatant refusal of compliance, suspicion should certainly direct one's course of action. How else to find the truth?
Electrical engineer and technology lover. I also love freedom, privacy and having full control of the devices I own. What a radical concept.
Nice straw man, man! Who called for the overthrow of the US gov't or the cessation of technological advancement? My point was that you're labeling people who are rightly suspicious of the motives behind a government-mandated kill switch as paranoid. Their suspicion is vigilance and skepticism, but not (at least in the pejorative sense) paranoia. If you think there's not potential for tyrannical abuse of this technology, you're naive.
The difference between your apparent misunderstanding of my position, and what I'd really advocate is this: You think I want to stop all technological advancement that could potentially be abused by the government. Actually, I just want full control of any technology I own. I do not want my cellphone or laptop camera to be activated unless I activate it. I do not want the mic or GPS on my cellphone to be active unless I'm using it. This is not too much to ask for, and is actually what the expectation ought to be when buying and using and use any of these devices. Sadly, though, as we've learned through recent whistle-blown information, this is not the case.
The address bar in my browser says slashdot.org, but I could swear I'm currently reading Huffpo. WTF is this story doing here?
There was a time when the idea that the government would capture and store every phone conversation and email of its citizens was paranoid. There was a time, not too long ago, that nobody would ever have believed that we'd have naked body scanners at the airport -- people like you would call anyone claiming this as a possibility "paranoid." Drone surveillance of the masses? Paranoid. Law enforcement roadblocks for obligatory cheek swabs? Paranoid. National database of private medical records available to unelected government entities? Paranoid
Fuck you and your labels -- you and your naivete. If a new technology can be used for control, obviously, it will be.
Thath the worthmonkey ever. Thtupid monkey.
I wonder how many of these employees voted for Obama before his position on gay marriage "evolved".
No surprise there. To the teachers unions, throwing money at the problem is always the answer. They always claim that if they just had more funding, they'd be able to buy more books and supplies (or software), or shrink class sizes. But, if you provide the necessary materials for free, well then, that's just not good enough. They're like the pan handler on the street corner holding the sign that says, "Will work for food." If you try to offer them work and/or food, though, they decline -- they just want money.
Each and every one of your arguments in favor of Windows 8 would also be applicable to DOS. Uptime? Stability? Yes, good... welcome to the last decade of operating systems. How about usability?
I'm sure both of them would say, "Yes!"
And yet, somehow, it still works great for millions of users.
If there was something wrong with the authoritative servers for the domains in question, then nobody's DNS resolution would work for those domains.