You know, there are linux distributions that do not install functionality-breaking spyware.E.g. (but not limited to) opensuse and fedora. Incidentally both are older that Ubunt and Mint, and my bet is they will last longer too.
using Zotero in the USE is probably a federal crime, bearing a liability up to several decades in prison: as they say "Zotero [allows] you to add [content] to your personal library with a single click. [...] a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times [...]"
Are we sure that semi-automatically adding an article from JSTOR or NYT to my library is not a violation of their terms of service?
I think you pretty much prove the point: Apple took several open-source software and built over them One of them (the kernel) was licenced BSD, they closed it up as soon as possible: now the open source projects is half dead, MacOS is doing great, Another projects (webKit) was licenced GPL, they could not close i up, now it has blossomed in the most used html engine on mobile, pcs and tablets.
The Italian provider Fastweb (pioneer of optical fiber connections in Italy) has been doing it for ages, technically since the very beginning of its business.
The main drawback for it's customers has been with P2P programs, as direct peer-to-peer connections do not work well with NAT. As the Fastweb customers are not NATed with respect to each other, some of them even developed a special version of aMule (the most common P2P network at that time) called "adunanza" that would work inside the ISP-level network. Bittorrent is somehow less sensitive to the NAT problem, hence an "adunanza" torrent client was never developed.
I suspect this may actually be a strong motive behind such a silly ISP choice: reduce the exposition of P2Ping customers to the outside world. If the aim is to reduce P2P or just to hide it from the mayor's private police, it's hard to tell.
Maybe they wanted to avoid the negative publicity that comes with; maybe they were forced to do it now because they just found a severe defect in one of their most successful products. Maybe I'm just paranoid
Then they dropped all of that in favor of the god damn M$ way of a single desktop and crammed it down our throats.
Since when have you been smoking high quality double-concentrate reinforced crack?. Even the worst bug-infested 4.0.1 KDE version allowed you multiple desktops. They would just crash multiple times but they were there.
Actually KDE now allows you two different levels of multiplicity: desktops and activity. Where multiple desktops pretty much works as always, activities let you configure different sets of desktop applets (plasmoids), application started by default and more stuff. I personally do not use it, as I find it confusing, but you cannot complain it does not exist.
I was pretty evident it was a kid project from the responses they were giving. The hard truth is that operating systems are not lolcat pictures, somebody care about copyright. Nevertheless, the kids would have abandoned the project in a few weeks, after finding a girlfriend or discovering pot; no big loss for the OSS community.
I forgot the most important point: no automatic way to keep track of security and critical bug fixes.
Installing from source is only easy (not easier) as long as you are installing a single packet.
It does just what needs to be done, no more and no less.
This is absolutely not true. Installing from source is the worst way possible from the point of view of system consistency and cleaness.
First of all there is no check for files overwrite, i.e. if you install 2 version of the same library you do not know what you will get.
Then there is no uninstall mechanism, unless you keep the configured sources, and even if there is one it is left to the good will of the package make: no automatic way to track the modified files.
Then you need the development files for all the dependencies of the package you are going to install; which takes a lot of space and scatter further files around your disk.
Finally, it takes a lot of time, both human and cpu; nowadays it may not be so bad, but with 10 years ago internet and cpus t would take many hours to download and configure the linux kernel or any other 10k-lines package.
Saying that something is good just because it's old, or more technically complex is just stupid elitism. I do not think it's helping linux desktop at all
Yes, in fact, the ubiquitous tarball is not only an installer format, it's the original, by far the most widely compatible, and to oversimplify only slightly, the superior choice for installer format.
tar = tape archiver
as in, it used to be a tape backup program
it was abused to become an installer format by slackware, but just any.tar won't do, it has to include special files with pre- and post-scripts and more stuff.
I use 'fish' and 'smb' protocol kioslaves with Dolphin every day. Dolphin ain't perfect and neither is Samba, but you really should try reading the documentation...
I think that's the point. The idea of a desktop (as opposed to kernel-level support) was that stuff like that just work without having to read the documentation to do something as esoteric as move a file between machines. In 2012.
Actually: open dolphin, click on "network", click on "samba shares", browse. No need to read any documentation.
QuickTime Player is sandboxed in 10.8 (and possibly earlier), so it should have the same issues as MPlayerX... And I havn't experienced any difficulties as a power user.
What does it mean to be a power user of QuickTime Player? That you managed to find the full-screen button?
I don't understand *why* he thinks Windows 8 is going to be a catastrophe in the way that he says.
Because he (his company), being an important windows developer, has had the possibility to use and develop on pre-release versions of windows 8 for months. While you, you have only read the so-called reviews on MS-sponsored internet magazines.
Or maybe 30% of the world population value their time.... you can buy 60 of them. Even if 5 are crap, 15 are poor, 20 are ok, 15 are good and 5 are highly addictive you'll enjoy the good ones and quickly forget the bad ones.
So testing 60 games to find 5 that do not suck fits in which strategy of valuing your time?
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They are hype, but I'm not sure the sale volume is important
You know, there are linux distributions that do not install functionality-breaking spyware.E.g. (but not limited to) opensuse and fedora. Incidentally both are older that Ubunt and Mint, and my bet is they will last longer too.
using Zotero in the USE is probably a federal crime, bearing a liability up to several decades in prison: as they say "Zotero [allows] you to add [content] to your personal library with a single click. [...] a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times [...]"
Are we sure that semi-automatically adding an article from JSTOR or NYT to my library is not a violation of their terms of service?
Strangely, the fundamental unit of Patch for Crysis seems to be 210mb, as both patches were this size!
porbably the "patch" was just the entire binary code
I think you pretty much prove the point: Apple took several open-source software and built over them One of them (the kernel) was licenced BSD, they closed it up as soon as possible: now the open source projects is half dead, MacOS is doing great, Another projects (webKit) was licenced GPL, they could not close i up, now it has blossomed in the most used html engine on mobile, pcs and tablets.
The Italian provider Fastweb (pioneer of optical fiber connections in Italy) has been doing it for ages, technically since the very beginning of its business.
The main drawback for it's customers has been with P2P programs, as direct peer-to-peer connections do not work well with NAT. As the Fastweb customers are not NATed with respect to each other, some of them even developed a special version of aMule (the most common P2P network at that time) called "adunanza" that would work inside the ISP-level network. Bittorrent is somehow less sensitive to the NAT problem, hence an "adunanza" torrent client was never developed.
I suspect this may actually be a strong motive behind such a silly ISP choice: reduce the exposition of P2Ping customers to the outside world. If the aim is to reduce P2P or just to hide it from the mayor's private police, it's hard to tell.
The more you can delete, the better.
Starting from the Murphy's law on programming:
Every non trivial program has at least one bug
You can derive by rigorous analogy the Murphy's law on not-programming:
Every non written code has exactly zero bugs
There are many distributions: openSUSE, Fedora, Mint are common ones.
I'm surprised it's taken amazon this long.
Maybe they wanted to avoid the negative publicity that comes with; maybe they were forced to do it now because they just found a severe defect in one of their most successful products. Maybe I'm just paranoid
Then they dropped all of that in favor of the god damn M$ way of a single desktop and crammed it down our throats.
Since when have you been smoking high quality double-concentrate reinforced crack?. Even the worst bug-infested 4.0.1 KDE version allowed you multiple desktops. They would just crash multiple times but they were there.
Actually KDE now allows you two different levels of multiplicity: desktops and activity. Where multiple desktops pretty much works as always, activities let you configure different sets of desktop applets (plasmoids), application started by default and more stuff. I personally do not use it, as I find it confusing, but you cannot complain it does not exist.
i agree that git is a great tool, especially when i do not have to use it; as Linus Torvalds put it, git stands for:
One specific use of git that i love, and where you never have to touch git at all, is SparkleShare, granted that i self host it in a mini NAS
1) The noise cannot be heard by the driver until AFTER the bike is alongside or past the car.
Only if you are going faster than the speed of sound
I was pretty evident it was a kid project from the responses they were giving. The hard truth is that operating systems are not lolcat pictures, somebody care about copyright. Nevertheless, the kids would have abandoned the project in a few weeks, after finding a girlfriend or discovering pot; no big loss for the OSS community.
blah blah blah
I forgot the most important point: no automatic way to keep track of security and critical bug fixes. Installing from source is only easy (not easier) as long as you are installing a single packet.
It does just what needs to be done, no more and no less.
This is absolutely not true. Installing from source is the worst way possible from the point of view of system consistency and cleaness.
First of all there is no check for files overwrite, i.e. if you install 2 version of the same library you do not know what you will get.
Then there is no uninstall mechanism, unless you keep the configured sources, and even if there is one it is left to the good will of the package make: no automatic way to track the modified files.
Then you need the development files for all the dependencies of the package you are going to install; which takes a lot of space and scatter further files around your disk.
Finally, it takes a lot of time, both human and cpu; nowadays it may not be so bad, but with 10 years ago internet and cpus t would take many hours to download and configure the linux kernel or any other 10k-lines package.
Saying that something is good just because it's old, or more technically complex is just stupid elitism. I do not think it's helping linux desktop at all
Yes, in fact, the ubiquitous tarball is not only an installer format, it's the original, by far the most widely compatible, and to oversimplify only slightly, the superior choice for installer format.
tar = tape archiver
as in, it used to be a tape backup program
it was abused to become an installer format by slackware, but just any .tar won't do, it has to include special files with pre- and post-scripts and more stuff.
Also I think switching distro JUST for a different DE is retarded.
Especially when you are switching to a bug-infested ubuntu clone
I use 'fish' and 'smb' protocol kioslaves with Dolphin every day. Dolphin ain't perfect and neither is Samba, but you really should try reading the documentation...
I think that's the point. The idea of a desktop (as opposed to kernel-level support) was that stuff like that just work without having to read the documentation to do something as esoteric as move a file between machines. In 2012.
Actually: open dolphin, click on "network", click on "samba shares", browse. No need to read any documentation.
I understand the rant: gonomee 2 was for techies-only, GNOME 3 not...
you mean, gnome 3 is not even for techies?
Not according to Tim Cook.
I seriously doubt that the anonymous you were answering too is Tim Cook.
Um, some of those "Professionals" work for Apple. Do you really think they don't know what "Pros" need?
The point is not that they do not know, but that they do not care.
QuickTime Player is sandboxed in 10.8 (and possibly earlier), so it should have the same issues as MPlayerX... And I havn't experienced any difficulties as a power user.
What does it mean to be a power user of QuickTime Player? That you managed to find the full-screen button?
I don't understand *why* he thinks Windows 8 is going to be a catastrophe in the way that he says.
Because he (his company), being an important windows developer, has had the possibility to use and develop on pre-release versions of windows 8 for months. While you, you have only read the so-called reviews on MS-sponsored internet magazines.
Or maybe 30% of the world population value their time.... you can buy 60 of them. Even if 5 are crap, 15 are poor, 20 are ok, 15 are good and 5 are highly addictive you'll enjoy the good ones and quickly forget the bad ones.
So testing 60 games to find 5 that do not suck fits in which strategy of valuing your time?