well, the ad banners I agree with. The blogs, well, I'm not so sure they're such a problem. I mean, sure, xanga.com, livejournal and so forth sell adspace on users blogs, but running one's own blog without any financial interest is something else. That's what I do. And I'm proud of it. I have a place where I can tell people to find my opinions on a few things, and most of them like it. granted, the blogs where people post stuff just to generate traffic and be virtually "popular" is really silly, and I avoid those like the pest. But the few that do know how to show their ideas and opinions are worth being there. Just like/. exists. Isn't/. just a massive moderated blog anyway?
Wouldn't this technology also be safer for the RealID cards rather than RFID?
It's still contactless, though not readable from 40 feet like some RFID tags.
I hope that's what the FBI and NSA had in mind, instead of RFID, 'cuz otherwise I'll sue them both for knowingly facilitating identity theft.
I wouldn't mind the government being able to read cards without contact, as it imposes less wear on the readers AND the cards, thus saving US money.
As for Europe, I was there last month, and the reader wouldn't take my US visa card because it was lacking the safety chip from EU banks, and I had to be served by the clerk instead... Which was a royal pain. It definitely wasn't contactless though.
The fact is not who converted whom from the other side, but how many IE users switched to Opera VS. FF. In that regard, I think FF won big time. Yes it is a matter of marketing, and FOSS crowd love software of their own, but konqueror, which is also a brand new browser doesn't quite reach. Nor does Galeon or nautilus. There's gotta be something besides the hype, or else the hype would've died by now, don't you think? Btw, I did say I hadn't checked what were the ways of making Opera more compatible, but you counter your own argument there. FF was a "strip" of all the rest of the functions of Mozilla, therefore it's normal that it includes only the most popular functions built-in. And about userjs, well, I read somewhere on/. that javascript was an unsecure language by default. To me, using it like your extension language doesn't seem too wise, in terms of security...
Anyway, I haven't used Opera very much, and I like my fox like it is, and you Opera better. That's fine with me. I just didn't quite agree with the great-grandparent post. Probably out of ignorance, but even if I'm ignorant I'm still happy with what I have. Not to mention I can't dish out that much $$ for Opera and I hate banners, even more so when they're INCLUDED in the demo of the browser. My laptop doesn't have a huge screen, and clogging it with distracting uselessness is kind of an issue for me. So I hope you don't think I'm just a troll, because my point was that Opera didn't convert as many IE users than FF did... Although it's hard to get statistics, it's my (wild) guess at any rate.
well, see I'm a full time linux user at home, and having tried both firefox and opera, I find myself unable to agree with you on all points.
About being closed source, I'm fine with it. After all, ati and nvidia drivers are exactly the same, aren't they? Not to mention sun's java, which most people use, even if they're not happy with the license. The only issue I do feel could happen would be what MS is accused of doing: security through obscurity. Now, granted, it's not in their style, and their userbase is probably not large enough that they draw attention to crackers anyway, but it could arise in the future.
I'll leave out the memory part, because I didn't bother to compare, but for most of the stuff I do, Firefox is actually better. And now that there are so many extensions I just wouldn't try much else.
About the interface: Opera confused the hell out of me. It took me some getting used to, and even then I still wished it was better organized. The beef I have is the tabs ABOVE the address bar. Ain't gonna cut it for me, and that "new window" button is kind of in my way.
And the reason FF has plugins is precisely to keep the base code small and more manageable. Remember Opera's been out much longer than FF (something getting to a decade now?), so they've got the code base and methods in place to implement all those things inside the code, Firefox is what, less than a year or two in age? Give'em a break! They still beat out opera in marketshare. In the meantime, to satisfy users they put in place plugins, and I'm sure that eventually they'll take the most popular and merge them into the code, just that they don't feel like it's ready yet.
So please, spare me the "it's better because it's got everything builtin", it's the same idea with the kernel modules! Sure it's not my favorite thing either, but it sure as hell comes in handy. Ndiswrapper wouldn't exist without modules, which are basically the same thing as kernel plugins, and without ndiswrapper, chances are that a LOT of the linux crowd would be using windows to access wireless. And the nvidia drivers is another example of the usefullness of that.
So I don't know (and didn't check) if opera has a plugin interface, but I sure like FF's plugins for one, because locking users with only a given set of builtin features is not a good idea. Even MS lets users write macros for Office.
I'm not trying to flamebait, but I seriously doubt that a company that's developped a product for a decade and got spooned by a new OSS product in less than 2 years in marketshare has so many things to its advantage. Opera 8 reached, what, a tad over a million downloads? That's less than a tenth of the firefox 1.0 downloads. So it might be better in some areas, but they don't make enough noise to really be noticed by the public...
Are your grammar mistakes also do to your lack of typing skills?
Otherwise, an easy solution is to unplug the mouse for a week, and use only keyboard shortcuts, or play games (with the mouse) where there are many combinations to be had. FPS will only teach you a few around the left side of your keyboard, so read through the manuals for keyboard shortcuts to the most common functions, and even the not so common. It'll make you aware of the key layout. Or also try to type in the dark, so you have to guess where the keys are, that's mostly how I did it, but not to learn myself how to type, so I wouldn't keep my roommate awake.
But we should have a decade from the moment they're sold to figure it out, since they last so long. Besides, to me it seemed that Tritium's decay was around a couple decades, so the question is: has it decayed to a level where it's safe enough to be handled without exhorbitantly priced precautions by the time they're brought in for recycling or not?
read post above: tritium radiation is too weak to penetrate human skin. Tritium does not emit in the gamma range. It emits beta particles (electrons), and neutrinos. Both are harmless to humans, since the electrons are caught to produce current, and neutrinos can go through the entire planet without colliding with a particle. It's particle physics, but it's not out of the public's understanding. Especially not the/. crowd.
hey, dunno where you've been, but if you looked around, loaded the VISOR module in your kernel (2.6 series), had jpilot and all its deps installed, you wouldn't have trouble whatsoever!
The visor module is a USB Serial Converter, and although it's hidden, it's there. I use it daily with my Palm m505 and it works wonder!
This is a lack of research on your part, not a lack of support.
Now the real trick is to get Psion's PDAs to work with linux from a gui. Not Palm's!
Not only that, but I'm finding a way to fry those RFID chips, and I'll make damn sure they can't sue me for the chip not working either! I'm SO pissed. Since when should I let the government think for me? What's next, brain control chips that'll zap us if we think against the Bush dictatorship ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H government? I say screw the feds. If no one actually gets one, what would happen? Everyone would be illegally driving, right? So they'd have to put everyone in jail, and nobody would be able to pay taxes. Has someone actually told CNN about that rider bill at all? It should make it to the frontpage! Their article doesn't even MENTION such a thing as RealID!!! USELESS!!!!!!! Someone hold me back or I'm going to strangle some politicians in DC! And some reporters not doing their job along the way too! Time to create a NEW NEWS NETWORK that'll actually report things people NEED to know, not what the top wants them to know.
iirc it's actually drag increasing as square of the speed. It's also a matter of equivalence. More energy you spend when accelerating smoothly goes to compensate for friction created by that increase than if the increase is brutal. Think about it: your car doesn't have any momentum yet, but you're still compensating for a higher amount of drag. So accelerating smoothly actually makes you lose energy in that scenario, compared to accelerating aggressively where you reach your cruising speed faster and thus supply only the amount of energy necessary to compensate the drag. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but it makes more sense when you try and graph it out. I haven't tried doing graphs in ascii art yet though. I know my mom drives smoothly to avoid wear and save fuel, but I drive aggressively, the same car. And I get a better mileage than she does, on the same routes, with equivalent travel times. How else could it be explained?
The way I look at it, from a mathematical perspective, if your accident rate goes down, but your mortality rate goes up, you could get roughly about the same number of deaths on the road on given segments. That being said, your probability of dying in a car accident stays relatively the same no matter what the speed limit. Not that I agree with upping the speed limits, but it's a known fact that when not on a parking lot of a highway in SoCal people driving 65 are also known as "public danger", as the traffic moves usually around 75-80 mph... Mileage aside, I still think that driving aggressively can save you gas: you use a lot more when accelerating, but then you're using less to maintain your speed. As opposed to accelerating over a longer period of time.
Assuming a frictionless environment, the same energy is spent accelerating. But air resistance changes that: you use more fuel when driving smoothly, because you get longer air resistance during the acceleration phase.
I grew up in Europe, where train was the fastest and cheapest way to get from one place to another as long as it wasn't more than about 1500 km away (~900 miles). France is known for their train strikes, and British trains are almost always late, yet the services they offer is with no comparison to that in the US.
Amtrak is slow at best. I mean, it takes a train over 3 hours to get from one side of LA to the other, when the same distance is covered by French trains (even on strike) in about 90 minutes!
And not with more stops in the US either.
I think the blame in this case goes to poor usage, cheap maintenance and Amtrak tries to keep operating costs low, thus running train at low speeds. However, that doesn't make for a useful service at all, I've looked into using it.
From Seattle, WA, to Portland, OR, it takes about 3h30 minutes, which is more than the greyhound service!
That's preposterous for a train service to be that slow! I mean, if they want to get competitive, then maybe upgrade your train lines and speed them up a bit. Then you'll make enough money to develop high speed train and compete with airlines.
Problem is, roadtrips are too engrained in the country. I mean, sure, there's a nice feel, but you spend a huge amount of money on gas, motels, etc. So make trains fun and cheap, and you'll see an increase in use. Also a little bit of advertisement will help.
apparently, you've never had to deal with OSX very much... I haven't used gnome2 extensively, as I'm mostly an Enlightenment user myself, but seriously, try using a mac for something more advanced than web browsing and you'll see how many clicks you need there! I mean, I'm sure you could specify keyboard shortcuts for it, but they're not created by default. Meaning almost every operation, including accessing the Apple menu has to be done by a mouse click... It sucks. Yet people love it's "user friendliness". I guess they've never heard of tendinidis, or they all sit in a perfect position in front of their computers... I do agree that it's annoying in gtk programs when you want to save a file somewhere that it tries to imitate the OSX way, because it's the shittiest way of doing it I've ever seen. OSX is still useable, it's not too bad. The Gnome implementation of it just plainly sucks though. They're missing the left bar that lets you select extra locations. Just my own $.02 in this discussion. Gnome isn't all that bad. It could be better, and that's why they have devs and are looking at a fork. Honestly, a fork will benefit the devs. If some devs focus on maintaining Gnome they can finally listen to the users and create something USEABLE, while the rest of the team actually hacks out new features, etc.
at least we know we won't have to worry about cooling anything down in our computers. In fact, given the temps in those "frozen atoms" we may need heaters for the room in which that thing is sitting... Not to mention that you can't have any more plexiglas on your tower, or you'll probably lose all your processing power in tanning power! Damn, geeks, you're out of luck...
I hate sounding like I'm not happy with this, although I'm sure many a one will be happy with the change, because it'll make it easier for Photoshop users to switch. However, doesn't Adobe have a copyright or a patent on those kinds of UIs? Either one would be destructive to the Opensource movement in general, because if gimpshop gets busted, almost no one will try and switch to the gimp because they'll think it's just a copycat of Adobe's hard work instead of the innovative program it really is. Also, if the Gimp developpers have gone so long astray from that interface, there's a reason, and we should ask them why and try and understand it before short-circuiting their logic and possibly unleashing a monster out of it's box. If Adobe takes this to court, it's going to be ugly. Not only for the creator of gimpshop, but for the Gimp and Opensource hackers in general. I admire the effort, but I'm not so sure I wanted the gimp changed...
well, I guess it tells us that MS doesn't know how to do too much... It can't make decent software OR a decent media service, eh?
I feel like all the lawsuits are more like a swarm of mosquitoes distracting MS from the penguin looming in the darkness. When it finally attacks (I know penguins don't attack, but just for the sake of this metaphor) it'll be a quick kill.
This means I expect to see the MS empire to disappear within my lifetime. And I'll do anything be able to grab some credit of the kill. At least I'll be able to say I did some good on this world...
the sad part is, they might. Not only that, but they also have MSNBC, which they can virtually get anything out of, AND make ads for their service once it quits the alpha stage and is ready for the commercial beta-testing MS makes us used to as (once) customers...
yeah, I was thinking, it'd be nice if they actually had links as to HOW TO GET STARTED CODING in OpenSource... I'm sure it'll come once there's a demand big enough for it, but it's not the first time a slashdot summary gets my hopes too high either...
Wait, so what you're basically saying, in the first part of your comment, is that any kid out of school that doesn't have professional linux admin skills is automatically in the "no" pile? This sucks! How the hell are college grads supposed to find a job if they all require previous professional experience? You seem to have a fairly good knowledge of the business, so what would a college grad with a CS/math degree do to get a job in linux admin, when none of the CS classes he took lead to administration? I've installed gentoo on a few boxes, repaired mandrake, used redhat 9 and SuSE, but nothing professionally. Are you saying I should start by joining in a non-profit organization and work my way up? But are non-profit orgs professional experience? And how do we make money in the meantime?
I'm really curious as to the answer to those questions, because they're most likely the ones I'll be facing in 3 years.
Even though my screen is running at 60 Hz.
Oh... wait, it's a laptop screen.
I can notice anything at 75 Hz or less from a great distance. I don't know why this is, but I can tell that for me it's an evolving thing. I wasn't able to spot 60 Hz, but now I can't watch TV without being a humongus distance away. I think the more you're in front of a screen, the more likely you are to notice, because your eyes become more picky...
Or it could just be because I'm a teenager and my eyes are still getting a little better.
I beg to differ. The kgw.com homepage (local news for Portland area) indicates that: " MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. -- Mount St. Helens' latest eruption lasted for about 10 minutes, hurled rocks and sent a faint ash cloud all the way to Montana, but scientists said Tuesday's blast was small and the new lava dome was intact. "
So, I know what the reports said, but they were wrong it seems. Always wait for the officials to say something in a story like this. =)
Mandrake did it! They give you a 20/30/40 GB USB 2 hard drive, a mini CD, and Mandrake 10.0 pre-installed on the usb drive. Pop in the mini-cd and there goes Mandrake. A friend of mine has it, and he loves it. He can access all his winXP files and use every game he wants without having to bother with hard drive partitioning. The only downside is the price, it costs about $250/300 because of the pocket drive. It's way too slow on a USB 1 plug though.
wooo, slow your horses down!
I'm in Portland, OR, and I was observing the plume from outside just earlier, and then tuned to the local news (Channel 8 News), and they say it MIGHT have, but that it's unlikely.
Same deal on kgw.com, which is the website for the tv station. Free reg, but you get access to streaming wmv's of everything that goes on tv (and I haven't noticed any spam from that reg either, they're clean).
It's not collapsed yet, the articles are being a bit presumptuous. Until the USGS confirms it, it's only a hypothesis. Besides, it's in a dome building phase, not an eruptive phase, we would've felt it here.
with an FPS game? I mean, I can understand how it'll work for most people just typing text and such, but honestly, I doubt it'll ever gain wide adoption. Artists are addicted to their tablets, gamers to their mice and me to my trackball. Maybe it'll replace the annoying trackpads on laptops, and be an improvement there, but let's not bet too high. Many have tried, many have failed, few have succeeded. I feel like the next gen input device should not be 2D but 3D, and some have already tried working with that, like the Gyro mouse... But it's not useful for desktop 3D input.
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well, the ad banners I agree with. The blogs, well, I'm not so sure they're such a problem. I mean, sure, xanga.com, livejournal and so forth sell adspace on users blogs, but running one's own blog without any financial interest is something else. That's what I do. And I'm proud of it. I have a place where I can tell people to find my opinions on a few things, and most of them like it. /. exists. Isn't /. just a massive moderated blog anyway?
granted, the blogs where people post stuff just to generate traffic and be virtually "popular" is really silly, and I avoid those like the pest. But the few that do know how to show their ideas and opinions are worth being there.
Just like
Wouldn't this technology also be safer for the RealID cards rather than RFID? It's still contactless, though not readable from 40 feet like some RFID tags. I hope that's what the FBI and NSA had in mind, instead of RFID, 'cuz otherwise I'll sue them both for knowingly facilitating identity theft. I wouldn't mind the government being able to read cards without contact, as it imposes less wear on the readers AND the cards, thus saving US money. As for Europe, I was there last month, and the reader wouldn't take my US visa card because it was lacking the safety chip from EU banks, and I had to be served by the clerk instead... Which was a royal pain. It definitely wasn't contactless though.
wait... best browser is google? I take it you meant best search engine? Kinda confused there...
The fact is not who converted whom from the other side, but how many IE users switched to Opera VS. FF. In that regard, I think FF won big time. /. that javascript was an unsecure language by default. To me, using it like your extension language doesn't seem too wise, in terms of security...
Yes it is a matter of marketing, and FOSS crowd love software of their own, but konqueror, which is also a brand new browser doesn't quite reach. Nor does Galeon or nautilus. There's gotta be something besides the hype, or else the hype would've died by now, don't you think?
Btw, I did say I hadn't checked what were the ways of making Opera more compatible, but you counter your own argument there. FF was a "strip" of all the rest of the functions of Mozilla, therefore it's normal that it includes only the most popular functions built-in.
And about userjs, well, I read somewhere on
Anyway, I haven't used Opera very much, and I like my fox like it is, and you Opera better. That's fine with me. I just didn't quite agree with the great-grandparent post. Probably out of ignorance, but even if I'm ignorant I'm still happy with what I have. Not to mention I can't dish out that much $$ for Opera and I hate banners, even more so when they're INCLUDED in the demo of the browser. My laptop doesn't have a huge screen, and clogging it with distracting uselessness is kind of an issue for me.
So I hope you don't think I'm just a troll, because my point was that Opera didn't convert as many IE users than FF did... Although it's hard to get statistics, it's my (wild) guess at any rate.
well, see I'm a full time linux user at home, and having tried both firefox and opera, I find myself unable to agree with you on all points.
About being closed source, I'm fine with it. After all, ati and nvidia drivers are exactly the same, aren't they? Not to mention sun's java, which most people use, even if they're not happy with the license. The only issue I do feel could happen would be what MS is accused of doing: security through obscurity. Now, granted, it's not in their style, and their userbase is probably not large enough that they draw attention to crackers anyway, but it could arise in the future.
I'll leave out the memory part, because I didn't bother to compare, but for most of the stuff I do, Firefox is actually better. And now that there are so many extensions I just wouldn't try much else.
About the interface: Opera confused the hell out of me. It took me some getting used to, and even then I still wished it was better organized. The beef I have is the tabs ABOVE the address bar. Ain't gonna cut it for me, and that "new window" button is kind of in my way.
And the reason FF has plugins is precisely to keep the base code small and more manageable. Remember Opera's been out much longer than FF (something getting to a decade now?), so they've got the code base and methods in place to implement all those things inside the code, Firefox is what, less than a year or two in age? Give'em a break! They still beat out opera in marketshare. In the meantime, to satisfy users they put in place plugins, and I'm sure that eventually they'll take the most popular and merge them into the code, just that they don't feel like it's ready yet.
So please, spare me the "it's better because it's got everything builtin", it's the same idea with the kernel modules! Sure it's not my favorite thing either, but it sure as hell comes in handy.
Ndiswrapper wouldn't exist without modules, which are basically the same thing as kernel plugins, and without ndiswrapper, chances are that a LOT of the linux crowd would be using windows to access wireless. And the nvidia drivers is another example of the usefullness of that.
So I don't know (and didn't check) if opera has a plugin interface, but I sure like FF's plugins for one, because locking users with only a given set of builtin features is not a good idea. Even MS lets users write macros for Office.
I'm not trying to flamebait, but I seriously doubt that a company that's developped a product for a decade and got spooned by a new OSS product in less than 2 years in marketshare has so many things to its advantage.
Opera 8 reached, what, a tad over a million downloads? That's less than a tenth of the firefox 1.0 downloads. So it might be better in some areas, but they don't make enough noise to really be noticed by the public...
Are your grammar mistakes also do to your lack of typing skills? Otherwise, an easy solution is to unplug the mouse for a week, and use only keyboard shortcuts, or play games (with the mouse) where there are many combinations to be had. FPS will only teach you a few around the left side of your keyboard, so read through the manuals for keyboard shortcuts to the most common functions, and even the not so common. It'll make you aware of the key layout. Or also try to type in the dark, so you have to guess where the keys are, that's mostly how I did it, but not to learn myself how to type, so I wouldn't keep my roommate awake.
But we should have a decade from the moment they're sold to figure it out, since they last so long.
Besides, to me it seemed that Tritium's decay was around a couple decades, so the question is: has it decayed to a level where it's safe enough to be handled without exhorbitantly priced precautions by the time they're brought in for recycling or not?
read post above: tritium radiation is too weak to penetrate human skin. /. crowd.
Tritium does not emit in the gamma range. It emits beta particles (electrons), and neutrinos. Both are harmless to humans, since the electrons are caught to produce current, and neutrinos can go through the entire planet without colliding with a particle.
It's particle physics, but it's not out of the public's understanding. Especially not the
hey, dunno where you've been, but if you looked around, loaded the VISOR module in your kernel (2.6 series), had jpilot and all its deps installed, you wouldn't have trouble whatsoever! The visor module is a USB Serial Converter, and although it's hidden, it's there. I use it daily with my Palm m505 and it works wonder! This is a lack of research on your part, not a lack of support. Now the real trick is to get Psion's PDAs to work with linux from a gui. Not Palm's!
Not only that, but I'm finding a way to fry those RFID chips, and I'll make damn sure they can't sue me for the chip not working either!
I'm SO pissed. Since when should I let the government think for me?
What's next, brain control chips that'll zap us if we think against the Bush dictatorship ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H government?
I say screw the feds. If no one actually gets one, what would happen? Everyone would be illegally driving, right? So they'd have to put everyone in jail, and nobody would be able to pay taxes.
Has someone actually told CNN about that rider bill at all? It should make it to the frontpage!
Their article doesn't even MENTION such a thing as RealID!!!
USELESS!!!!!!!
Someone hold me back or I'm going to strangle some politicians in DC! And some reporters not doing their job along the way too!
Time to create a NEW NEWS NETWORK that'll actually report things people NEED to know, not what the top wants them to know.
iirc it's actually drag increasing as square of the speed.
It's also a matter of equivalence. More energy you spend when accelerating smoothly goes to compensate for friction created by that increase than if the increase is brutal.
Think about it: your car doesn't have any momentum yet, but you're still compensating for a higher amount of drag. So accelerating smoothly actually makes you lose energy in that scenario, compared to accelerating aggressively where you reach your cruising speed faster and thus supply only the amount of energy necessary to compensate the drag. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but it makes more sense when you try and graph it out.
I haven't tried doing graphs in ascii art yet though.
I know my mom drives smoothly to avoid wear and save fuel, but I drive aggressively, the same car. And I get a better mileage than she does, on the same routes, with equivalent travel times.
How else could it be explained?
The way I look at it, from a mathematical perspective, if your accident rate goes down, but your mortality rate goes up, you could get roughly about the same number of deaths on the road on given segments.
That being said, your probability of dying in a car accident stays relatively the same no matter what the speed limit.
Not that I agree with upping the speed limits, but it's a known fact that when not on a parking lot of a highway in SoCal people driving 65 are also known as "public danger", as the traffic moves usually around 75-80 mph...
Mileage aside, I still think that driving aggressively can save you gas: you use a lot more when accelerating, but then you're using less to maintain your speed. As opposed to accelerating over a longer period of time.
Assuming a frictionless environment, the same energy is spent accelerating. But air resistance changes that: you use more fuel when driving smoothly, because you get longer air resistance during the acceleration phase.
Just my logical $.02 worth in the topic.
I grew up in Europe, where train was the fastest and cheapest way to get from one place to another as long as it wasn't more than about 1500 km away (~900 miles). France is known for their train strikes, and British trains are almost always late, yet the services they offer is with no comparison to that in the US. Amtrak is slow at best. I mean, it takes a train over 3 hours to get from one side of LA to the other, when the same distance is covered by French trains (even on strike) in about 90 minutes! And not with more stops in the US either. I think the blame in this case goes to poor usage, cheap maintenance and Amtrak tries to keep operating costs low, thus running train at low speeds. However, that doesn't make for a useful service at all, I've looked into using it. From Seattle, WA, to Portland, OR, it takes about 3h30 minutes, which is more than the greyhound service! That's preposterous for a train service to be that slow! I mean, if they want to get competitive, then maybe upgrade your train lines and speed them up a bit. Then you'll make enough money to develop high speed train and compete with airlines. Problem is, roadtrips are too engrained in the country. I mean, sure, there's a nice feel, but you spend a huge amount of money on gas, motels, etc. So make trains fun and cheap, and you'll see an increase in use. Also a little bit of advertisement will help.
apparently, you've never had to deal with OSX very much...
I haven't used gnome2 extensively, as I'm mostly an Enlightenment user myself, but seriously, try using a mac for something more advanced than web browsing and you'll see how many clicks you need there!
I mean, I'm sure you could specify keyboard shortcuts for it, but they're not created by default. Meaning almost every operation, including accessing the Apple menu has to be done by a mouse click... It sucks. Yet people love it's "user friendliness". I guess they've never heard of tendinidis, or they all sit in a perfect position in front of their computers...
I do agree that it's annoying in gtk programs when you want to save a file somewhere that it tries to imitate the OSX way, because it's the shittiest way of doing it I've ever seen. OSX is still useable, it's not too bad. The Gnome implementation of it just plainly sucks though. They're missing the left bar that lets you select extra locations. Just my own $.02 in this discussion.
Gnome isn't all that bad. It could be better, and that's why they have devs and are looking at a fork. Honestly, a fork will benefit the devs. If some devs focus on maintaining Gnome they can finally listen to the users and create something USEABLE, while the rest of the team actually hacks out new features, etc.
at least we know we won't have to worry about cooling anything down in our computers. In fact, given the temps in those "frozen atoms" we may need heaters for the room in which that thing is sitting... Not to mention that you can't have any more plexiglas on your tower, or you'll probably lose all your processing power in tanning power!
Damn, geeks, you're out of luck...
I hate sounding like I'm not happy with this, although I'm sure many a one will be happy with the change, because it'll make it easier for Photoshop users to switch. However, doesn't Adobe have a copyright or a patent on those kinds of UIs? Either one would be destructive to the Opensource movement in general, because if gimpshop gets busted, almost no one will try and switch to the gimp because they'll think it's just a copycat of Adobe's hard work instead of the innovative program it really is.
Also, if the Gimp developpers have gone so long astray from that interface, there's a reason, and we should ask them why and try and understand it before short-circuiting their logic and possibly unleashing a monster out of it's box.
If Adobe takes this to court, it's going to be ugly. Not only for the creator of gimpshop, but for the Gimp and Opensource hackers in general. I admire the effort, but I'm not so sure I wanted the gimp changed...
well, I guess it tells us that MS doesn't know how to do too much... It can't make decent software OR a decent media service, eh? I feel like all the lawsuits are more like a swarm of mosquitoes distracting MS from the penguin looming in the darkness. When it finally attacks (I know penguins don't attack, but just for the sake of this metaphor) it'll be a quick kill. This means I expect to see the MS empire to disappear within my lifetime. And I'll do anything be able to grab some credit of the kill. At least I'll be able to say I did some good on this world...
the sad part is, they might. Not only that, but they also have MSNBC, which they can virtually get anything out of, AND make ads for their service once it quits the alpha stage and is ready for the commercial beta-testing MS makes us used to as (once) customers...
yeah, I was thinking, it'd be nice if they actually had links as to HOW TO GET STARTED CODING in OpenSource... I'm sure it'll come once there's a demand big enough for it, but it's not the first time a slashdot summary gets my hopes too high either...
Wait, so what you're basically saying, in the first part of your comment, is that any kid out of school that doesn't have professional linux admin skills is automatically in the "no" pile? This sucks! How the hell are college grads supposed to find a job if they all require previous professional experience? You seem to have a fairly good knowledge of the business, so what would a college grad with a CS/math degree do to get a job in linux admin, when none of the CS classes he took lead to administration? I've installed gentoo on a few boxes, repaired mandrake, used redhat 9 and SuSE, but nothing professionally. Are you saying I should start by joining in a non-profit organization and work my way up? But are non-profit orgs professional experience? And how do we make money in the meantime? I'm really curious as to the answer to those questions, because they're most likely the ones I'll be facing in 3 years.
Even though my screen is running at 60 Hz. Oh... wait, it's a laptop screen. I can notice anything at 75 Hz or less from a great distance. I don't know why this is, but I can tell that for me it's an evolving thing. I wasn't able to spot 60 Hz, but now I can't watch TV without being a humongus distance away. I think the more you're in front of a screen, the more likely you are to notice, because your eyes become more picky... Or it could just be because I'm a teenager and my eyes are still getting a little better.
I beg to differ. The kgw.com homepage (local news for Portland area) indicates that:
" MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. -- Mount St. Helens' latest eruption lasted for about 10 minutes, hurled rocks and sent a faint ash cloud all the way to Montana, but scientists said Tuesday's blast was small and the new lava dome was intact. "
So, I know what the reports said, but they were wrong it seems. Always wait for the officials to say something in a story like this. =)
Mandrake did it!
They give you a 20/30/40 GB USB 2 hard drive, a mini CD, and Mandrake 10.0 pre-installed on the usb drive. Pop in the mini-cd and there goes Mandrake. A friend of mine has it, and he loves it. He can access all his winXP files and use every game he wants without having to bother with hard drive partitioning.
The only downside is the price, it costs about $250/300 because of the pocket drive.
It's way too slow on a USB 1 plug though.
wooo, slow your horses down! I'm in Portland, OR, and I was observing the plume from outside just earlier, and then tuned to the local news (Channel 8 News), and they say it MIGHT have, but that it's unlikely. Same deal on kgw.com, which is the website for the tv station. Free reg, but you get access to streaming wmv's of everything that goes on tv (and I haven't noticed any spam from that reg either, they're clean). It's not collapsed yet, the articles are being a bit presumptuous. Until the USGS confirms it, it's only a hypothesis. Besides, it's in a dome building phase, not an eruptive phase, we would've felt it here.
with an FPS game? I mean, I can understand how it'll work for most people just typing text and such, but honestly, I doubt it'll ever gain wide adoption. Artists are addicted to their tablets, gamers to their mice and me to my trackball.
Maybe it'll replace the annoying trackpads on laptops, and be an improvement there, but let's not bet too high. Many have tried, many have failed, few have succeeded.
I feel like the next gen input device should not be 2D but 3D, and some have already tried working with that, like the Gyro mouse... But it's not useful for desktop 3D input.