KDE opens a dialog and asks you if you want the CD to be mounted
I call those "Should I do something stupid" dialogs. Just out of interest, under which circumstances do you _not_ want a data CD to be mounted when you insert it in your drive?
Your average optical drive is rather expensive to use as a CD case you know.
I personally don't want to play a game with a story written by Intel's 3D researchers - I'm quite happy for them to carry on working on what they know best.
Re:hmmmm. as long as your are offering advice
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There's no need for an SUV in a standard suburban setting either. I don't know about the USA, but in Australia we still have sealed roads even in the outermost suburbs of our cities.
The current British Royal Family are descendants from a French Invasion of England made in 1066 AD No they're not. They're Germans, from the house Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the English branch of which being renamed to Windsor when having German sounding names didn't make you popular), and before that, house Hanover (since the early 18th century). And even before that it was far more complicated than simply being descendants of William I
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what the hell are you talking about? For a start - what's a "buggy whip"? I know that Buggy is an americanism for Carriage, but what does the whip have to do with it, and what makes it a useful analogy for anything?
Also, using blender is easy. very easy, because the interface has been carefully designed to be productive. But if you've got a preconceived idea about how it should work, then maybe it might take reading a tutorial to get started. But if you're an experienced user, then you'll understand that every tool does things differently, and learn how Blender does things, or if you're not, then you'd need a tutorial anyway, so what's the problem?
Why should they cripple a productive interface so that the first five minutes are a little easier for someone who doesn't want to RTFM?
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maybe, just maybe, Blender isn't for kids that just want to make a quick model of the Solar system for a school project.
For what it's worth, my daughter (10) tried blender just recently, and it wasn't the interface that made her give up, it was a lack of tutorials that matched the current version.
that would be why they would be changing it to a specific, and concrete limit.
Having a cap + shaping or excess usage charges makes perfect sense, and it's far more consumer friendly than some unknown "acceptable usage" limit. Of course, truly unlimited internet for $0 a month would be even more consumer friendly. But wanting it to happen doesn't make it possible.
The kernel would be a really bad place to put a garbage collector, because that would mean the entire system would halt on a compaction. Only if you wrote it to work that way.
But, I suppose, this insanely powerful ability is not "progress." Hrm. it's progress for C++, but it's something people have been doing in Lisp forever, and something that is largely unnecessary in dynamic Object Oriented languages like Smalltalk.
It's good that C++ can do that, but that doesn't make it special.
Will someone please tell me what this mythical language "C/C++" is?
They're two very different languages with entirely different programing paradigms and best-practices. The syntax of C++ may happen to include that of C, but that doesn't mean the two languages are equivalent, or that skill in one has any bearing on skill in the other, any more than general programing skill usually applies across all languages.
I've interviewed too many C++ programmers who thought they were suitable for a C position to believe that, and I know that even with 15 years of C experience, plus experience in Smalltalk and Java that I'm not qualified to apply for a C++ job.
Otherwise, I agree that C at least will be around, and popular for a long time to come. C++ has less of a certain future though.
Does this mean that the border guards have the right to examine any paperwork I might be carrying? Yes. Yes it does.
Do they have the right to open a sealed envelope for example? I don't see much difference. Yes. Yes they do.
MySQL depends on one thing, and one thing only - Hosting providers. If it weren't for the fact that it was pretty much universally provided by hosting providers it wouldn't have reached anywhere near the popularity it has today. The same goes for PHP. PostgreSQL has always had the geek mindshare.
No one has the right to pry into our private affairs. Period. You answered your own question. If you suspect someone of wasting your work resources then by all means investigate that and deal with them appropriately - but don't spy on them as a matter of course.
Apparently where you come from, doing so is OK. But in Australia it's not (yet - and hopefully this bill will be defeated) - and I would not work for an employer that thought that way. A successful relationship, whether personal or business is based on trust - if there is no trust, there cannot be a successful relationship.
I find it very disturbing that you believe a private company has more right to spy on you than the Government. I'm not really comfortable with either doing it - particularly not for the reasons given. But at least the government is supposed to have your interests at heart - that's its reason for existing. A private company only does things for its own interests.
Public companies can do anything the hell they like, as long as the inform their shareholders - if they tell their shareholders they're not going to worry about piracy anymore, then those shareholders can feel free to sell and invest elsewhere if it bothers them.
Especially since in a large number of places (including in the USA), sex with a 17 year old would be perfectly legal, no matter how much older you are.
The reality (in Australia), is that wireless hotspots are hard to find, and when you do find them, they can cost as much as $15-30 an hour
I pay $15 a month for HSDPA (real world throughput of 2Mb/500kbs), and I only have to use it once every couple of months for it to pay for itself compared with using a wireless hotspot.
also, he wasn't a baron, his name was just Victor Frankenstein. Nor was he a scientist - he was an obsessive undergraduate. He built the monster in his dorm room.
How exactly is this NOT true? The only people who buy these in the first place are generally computer idiots. You just explained exactly how it's not true.
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Your average optical drive is rather expensive to use as a CD case you know.
You sound like my CEO
I personally don't want to play a game with a story written by Intel's 3D researchers - I'm quite happy for them to carry on working on what they know best.
There's no need for an SUV in a standard suburban setting either.
I don't know about the USA, but in Australia we still have sealed roads even in the outermost suburbs of our cities.
They're Germans, from the house Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the English branch of which being renamed to Windsor when having German sounding names didn't make you popular), and before that, house Hanover (since the early 18th century).
And even before that it was far more complicated than simply being descendants of William I
what the hell are you talking about?
For a start - what's a "buggy whip"? I know that Buggy is an americanism for Carriage, but what does the whip have to do with it, and what makes it a useful analogy for anything?
Also, using blender is easy. very easy, because the interface has been carefully designed to be productive. But if you've got a preconceived idea about how it should work, then maybe it might take reading a tutorial to get started. But if you're an experienced user, then you'll understand that every tool does things differently, and learn how Blender does things, or if you're not, then you'd need a tutorial anyway, so what's the problem?
Why should they cripple a productive interface so that the first five minutes are a little easier for someone who doesn't want to RTFM?
maybe, just maybe, Blender isn't for kids that just want to make a quick model of the Solar system for a school project.
For what it's worth, my daughter (10) tried blender just recently, and it wasn't the interface that made her give up, it was a lack of tutorials that matched the current version.
that would be why they would be changing it to a specific, and concrete limit.
Having a cap + shaping or excess usage charges makes perfect sense, and it's far more consumer friendly than some unknown "acceptable usage" limit.
Of course, truly unlimited internet for $0 a month would be even more consumer friendly. But wanting it to happen doesn't make it possible.
It's good that C++ can do that, but that doesn't make it special.
Will someone please tell me what this mythical language "C/C++" is?
They're two very different languages with entirely different programing paradigms and best-practices.
The syntax of C++ may happen to include that of C, but that doesn't mean the two languages are equivalent, or that skill in one has any bearing on skill in the other, any more than general programing skill usually applies across all languages.
I've interviewed too many C++ programmers who thought they were suitable for a C position to believe that, and I know that even with 15 years of C experience, plus experience in Smalltalk and Java that I'm not qualified to apply for a C++ job.
Otherwise, I agree that C at least will be around, and popular for a long time to come.
C++ has less of a certain future though.
MySQL depends on one thing, and one thing only - Hosting providers.
If it weren't for the fact that it was pretty much universally provided by hosting providers it wouldn't have reached anywhere near the popularity it has today. The same goes for PHP.
PostgreSQL has always had the geek mindshare.
If you suspect someone of wasting your work resources then by all means investigate that and deal with them appropriately - but don't spy on them as a matter of course.
Apparently where you come from, doing so is OK. But in Australia it's not (yet - and hopefully this bill will be defeated) - and I would not work for an employer that thought that way. A successful relationship, whether personal or business is based on trust - if there is no trust, there cannot be a successful relationship.
I find it very disturbing that you believe a private company has more right to spy on you than the Government.
I'm not really comfortable with either doing it - particularly not for the reasons given. But at least the government is supposed to have your interests at heart - that's its reason for existing.
A private company only does things for its own interests.
Cost cutting doesn't help your revenue - if your revenue is down, you need to make more money - i.e., increase sales, not cut costs.
I don't see how cutting staff will increase revenue - it may increase their margin, but not their revenue.
Public companies can do anything the hell they like, as long as the inform their shareholders - if they tell their shareholders they're not going to worry about piracy anymore, then those shareholders can feel free to sell and invest elsewhere if it bothers them.
Especially since in a large number of places (including in the USA), sex with a 17 year old would be perfectly legal, no matter how much older you are.
You tell me where I can do A, and I won't do B.
The reality (in Australia), is that wireless hotspots are hard to find, and when you do find them, they can cost as much as $15-30 an hour
I pay $15 a month for HSDPA (real world throughput of 2Mb/500kbs), and I only have to use it once every couple of months for it to pay for itself compared with using a wireless hotspot.
If you're spending a whole year in another country, then wouldn't you just get a local plan and not bother with roaming?
also, he wasn't a baron, his name was just Victor Frankenstein. Nor was he a scientist - he was an obsessive undergraduate. He built the monster in his dorm room.
Disease and deprivation stalk the land like two...giant stalking things!
then all promptly started going bankrupt until they switched back to a metered or quota system. (at least in Australia)