Actually if you look on Rasterman.com, he does a few comparisons of different stock window managers using a script that he wrote, and E-17 kills.
http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News Scroll down to the post "E17 is being Optimized"
I'm particularly fond of the way the pager behaves. I like being able to drag and drop iconified windows between desktops. Although this works in Gnome, it will place the window in the new desktop at the same coordinates it was in the old one. With the pager in E, you can actually *place* the window within the pager...
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Sounds a bit overcomplicated to me, really. At least with the error prone parsing through text piped through app after app, I'm at any point able to thow a tee in the script and send the output somewhere that I can visibly read it and interpret it. I can also take that output and modify it slightly and send it manually back through the next step in the chain to do some additional testing. I'm not sure that simply examining the properties of the.NET object affords me the flexibility.
I'd also point out that I personally disagree with a lot of this obsession over object oriented code in everything these days. In a short script with a defined start and end, there's no need for the obfuscation of object orientation. I hate it when I see a huge generic class included by default on every page of a web application, even though some pages may only use 1 (or even NONE) of the functions within that class. At that point it's just a bunch of uneccessary overhead. It begins to seem like developers get use to that style of $this->crap and they can't get out of it
Okay. I'm sorry. But comparing the CPU to a set of tires is a bit off. I agree that there's a heck of a lot more to a computer than just the processor, but a Lamborghini with balding retreads is still going to totally outperform your neon on Pirellis.
If you would have said it's like buying a Neon or a Lamborghini and the engine is exactly the same, you have a valid argument. There is still significant difference in suspension and handling to offer the Lamborghini superior performance. Regardless of how well tuned your PC is, you can only go so far so fast with a fixed processor speed.
While this analogy may have made sense at one point in time, it doesn't work anymore. With Apple going to Intel, this is more like the difference between buying a Chrysler and a Mercedes... and, oh yeah... their both made in the same factory by the same disgruntled employees, and all the parts come from the same bin.
This is exactly what I was thinking. If all the companies with no linux servers last year have linux servers this year, then they fall out of the category. This seems like Linux is actually acheiving a pretty good conversion rate to me. If the number for this year were closer to 0%, it would indicate that a huge percentage of companies who were planning on running Linux for the first time have actually done so. And that would probably be a good thing.
I mean, one of the great points of OpenOffice.org was that you no longer had to choose your operating system based on what office suite you use. Now you are telling us that this is not the case.
Are all 64-bit Athlons Opterons?
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I think you missed the point. There isn't really an issue with Microsoft copying the feature from elsewhere... it's the fact that they are claiming that they are breaking new ground by doing it.
Nice try, but I you only took in a minor part of the equation, and so you fail
While it's true, the worm could probably intrude a *nix mySQL server that was open to the internet with a default password of ''... intrusion is only part of the game plan. The payload is the important part
In this case, I doubt that installing the exe on a *nix box is going to do much good. Even if the writer were to create a *nix specific script for the payload, I'm pretty sure it would be given the mysql uid/gid, and probably wouldn't be able to wreak havoc on a *nix-based system.
Except, I'm starting to use the GIMP even more than Photoshop lately. I guess I'm just getting more comfortable with it.
I still don't understand why everyone has so many problems with the interface. Makes me think people are just re-hashing old horror stories from before 2.0. To me it behaves just like any other application.
I just noticed that same thing... except I was thinking about ordering one.
Now I'm not sure I'm going to. People complaining because the drivers are out of date or don't work correctly, and I realize that they seldom check their own forums (user PCHDTVTech has just 2 posts ever)... an unpatched phpBB and they're just adding more straw to a broken camel
err... maybe not. Although he is questioning the study, he still points out that in an absolute best case for Windows scenario, Windows still has 5x as many bugs.
Wow. Thank you for taking the obvious and stating it with such clarity. I wish I hadn't blown all of my mod points earlier today. I wish more people could look at issues less passionately and more objectively like this.
I think you are incorrect in your assumptions regarding medical malpractice. In fact states that have malpractice caps that are effective (ex. Texas) are still quite generous.
As a point of fact, the Texas law limits non-economic damages to $250,000. The key word there being "non-economic"... Basically that means that you total up everything that your resulting injury or illness is going to cost you for the rest of your entire life, and then add $250,000.
Now of course the counter argument would be "You accidently cut off my leg, and all I get is $250,000. How can you put a price on my leg"
The counter to that is: We payed for you to get a car specially outfitted so you could drive with one leg, we sent you to therapy for 2 years and taught you to cope, we put you through special training and hooked you up with a good employer who can cope with your disability, we retrofitted your entire house, paid for all your hospital bills, etc. etc. and then we gave you $250,000. That's basically saying "No, you're right, we can't really put a price on your lost leg, but we can do a bunch of things to mitigate the impact of your lost leg... Get you to the point where you can live happily without it... and then we'll give you $250,000."
I mean lets look at this another way. This "extra" amount is well over 5 times the average U.S. salary. That's a lot of money to the average Joe. And this is non-economic, so if you're injury causes you to not be able to work, then this $250,000 is on top of another award that pays for you to live out your years comfortably. You've been compensated... This is just free money.
The problem with that idea is the amount of time between the manufacture and sale of the computer. If they did it at the retail store, then the retailer would have to accept the EULA in order to patch the system. I don't think that the retailer accepting the EULA on your behalf is a very good idea at all.
That was mostly bent on humor, but it would have been more technically correct if you would have said the fraction was worth more than the *rest* of the whole. See, let's say the whole = X. Then let's say that the excerpt = Y. Your statement then concludes that:
Y/X > X
I believe that the only way this statement can be true is if X itself was a fraction, but we already established that X was the whole. Now something like this might be true:
I'm really getting sick of people trashing the GIMP based on version 1.what-ever. We all know why you don't like it, and there's a reason the development team upgraded it and came out with something much better. Go get version 2.something instead. The menu items are fixed. Things pretty much behave like normal. All the tools you need and expect are there. You also have to realize that GIMP isn't trying to be an exact Photoshop mirror. There are some analogies to FireWorks and PShopPro hidden in there as well. With the exception of being able to assign effects to layers (something I admin is a very powerful capability in Photoshop) you can pretty much do what you need to do in the GIMP. If you really want to give yourself a kick in the pants, go visit the gallery section over at the GIMP User Group site. If you really dig in, I think you're going to be suprised to find there are some things that GIMP can do that Photoshop can't.
Yes, but fashion goods tend to be a whole lot more disposable than hard goods. They are also seasonal because of... the seasons. If you spent a lot of money on a blue wool peacoat this winter and wore it for three months, then next winter you buy a different winter coat that's in style... is that still a 3 month product cycle? It's not like you're going out wearing it today (unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case your coat was outdated when you bought it). Are this years spring colors outdated by this years summer colors, or are this years spring colors replaced by next years spring colors?
Also, the designers right NOW are designing for the spring and summer of 2005... so if you're a designer you won't be 3 seasons off. That would be like saying that if you worked for Konico and today had the prototype of the next cycle's camera.
And don't forget, there will always be things within any market that basically ignore trends: Levis 501s, etc.
Shouldn't it be possible for someone to create a browser helper object that closes all the doors, shuts the windows, throws the deadbolt, and covers all the other security holes.
Or along those same lines, shouldn't it be possible to create an ActiveX drive-by that downloads and installs Firefox, and edits all the IE shortcuts to point to firefox.exe instead.
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Actually if you look on Rasterman.com, he does a few comparisons of different stock window managers using a script that he wrote, and E-17 kills.
http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News Scroll down to the post "E17 is being Optimized"
I'm particularly fond of the way the pager behaves. I like being able to drag and drop iconified windows between desktops. Although this works in Gnome, it will place the window in the new desktop at the same coordinates it was in the old one. With the pager in E, you can actually *place* the window within the pager...
Sounds a bit overcomplicated to me, really. At least with the error prone parsing through text piped through app after app, I'm at any point able to thow a tee in the script and send the output somewhere that I can visibly read it and interpret it. I can also take that output and modify it slightly and send it manually back through the next step in the chain to do some additional testing. I'm not sure that simply examining the properties of the .NET object affords me the flexibility.
I'd also point out that I personally disagree with a lot of this obsession over object oriented code in everything these days. In a short script with a defined start and end, there's no need for the obfuscation of object orientation. I hate it when I see a huge generic class included by default on every page of a web application, even though some pages may only use 1 (or even NONE) of the functions within that class. At that point it's just a bunch of uneccessary overhead. It begins to seem like developers get use to that style of $this->crap and they can't get out of it
Okay. I'm sorry. But comparing the CPU to a set of tires is a bit off. I agree that there's a heck of a lot more to a computer than just the processor, but a Lamborghini with balding retreads is still going to totally outperform your neon on Pirellis.
If you would have said it's like buying a Neon or a Lamborghini and the engine is exactly the same, you have a valid argument. There is still significant difference in suspension and handling to offer the Lamborghini superior performance. Regardless of how well tuned your PC is, you can only go so far so fast with a fixed processor speed.
While this analogy may have made sense at one point in time, it doesn't work anymore. With Apple going to Intel, this is more like the difference between buying a Chrysler and a Mercedes... and, oh yeah... their both made in the same factory by the same disgruntled employees, and all the parts come from the same bin.
This is exactly what I was thinking. If all the companies with no linux servers last year have linux servers this year, then they fall out of the category. This seems like Linux is actually acheiving a pretty good conversion rate to me. If the number for this year were closer to 0%, it would indicate that a huge percentage of companies who were planning on running Linux for the first time have actually done so. And that would probably be a good thing.
What if he doesn't want to run Solaris 10?
I mean, one of the great points of OpenOffice.org was that you no longer had to choose your operating system based on what office suite you use. Now you are telling us that this is not the case.
Are all 64-bit Athlons Opterons?
I think you missed the point. There isn't really an issue with Microsoft copying the feature from elsewhere... it's the fact that they are claiming that they are breaking new ground by doing it.
Supposing you really have been editing digital images since before Feb 1990 (Photoshop 1.0 release), what was it that you were using at the time?
What do you use now for your photo editing needs?
Not for nothing, but if you don't want to sound like a flame or a troll, examples are always helpful.
That's okay... it looks like shit in IE too. The browser has nothing what-so-ever to do with the site designer's artistic ability (or lack thereof)
Funny, cause if you look at the warning message on displayed on the site, you can clearly see that the "No" button is highlighted by default.
Nice try, but I you only took in a minor part of the equation, and so you fail
While it's true, the worm could probably intrude a *nix mySQL server that was open to the internet with a default password of ''... intrusion is only part of the game plan. The payload is the important part
In this case, I doubt that installing the exe on a *nix box is going to do much good. Even if the writer were to create a *nix specific script for the payload, I'm pretty sure it would be given the mysql uid/gid, and probably wouldn't be able to wreak havoc on a *nix-based system.
same here
Except, I'm starting to use the GIMP even more than Photoshop lately. I guess I'm just getting more comfortable with it.
I still don't understand why everyone has so many problems with the interface. Makes me think people are just re-hashing old horror stories from before 2.0. To me it behaves just like any other application.
I just noticed that same thing... except I was thinking about ordering one.
Now I'm not sure I'm going to. People complaining because the drivers are out of date or don't work correctly, and I realize that they seldom check their own forums (user PCHDTVTech has just 2 posts ever)... an unpatched phpBB and they're just adding more straw to a broken camel
err... maybe not. Although he is questioning the study, he still points out that in an absolute best case for Windows scenario, Windows still has 5x as many bugs.
hmmm... I've been saying tissue, bandage, and soda for years.
Are you saying that's because I don't really watch TV and I don't even own a TiV^H^H^HPVR
Wow. Thank you for taking the obvious and stating it with such clarity. I wish I hadn't blown all of my mod points earlier today. I wish more people could look at issues less passionately and more objectively like this.
I think you are incorrect in your assumptions regarding medical malpractice. In fact states that have malpractice caps that are effective (ex. Texas) are still quite generous.
As a point of fact, the Texas law limits non-economic damages to $250,000. The key word there being "non-economic"... Basically that means that you total up everything that your resulting injury or illness is going to cost you for the rest of your entire life, and then add $250,000.
Now of course the counter argument would be "You accidently cut off my leg, and all I get is $250,000. How can you put a price on my leg"
The counter to that is: We payed for you to get a car specially outfitted so you could drive with one leg, we sent you to therapy for 2 years and taught you to cope, we put you through special training and hooked you up with a good employer who can cope with your disability, we retrofitted your entire house, paid for all your hospital bills, etc. etc. and then we gave you $250,000. That's basically saying "No, you're right, we can't really put a price on your lost leg, but we can do a bunch of things to mitigate the impact of your lost leg... Get you to the point where you can live happily without it... and then we'll give you $250,000."
I mean lets look at this another way. This "extra" amount is well over 5 times the average U.S. salary. That's a lot of money to the average Joe. And this is non-economic, so if you're injury causes you to not be able to work, then this $250,000 is on top of another award that pays for you to live out your years comfortably. You've been compensated... This is just free money.
The problem with that idea is the amount of time between the manufacture and sale of the computer. If they did it at the retail store, then the retailer would have to accept the EULA in order to patch the system. I don't think that the retailer accepting the EULA on your behalf is a very good idea at all.
Unfortunately, the accident involved an mini-van and not an SUV.
I'm really getting sick of people trashing the GIMP based on version 1.what-ever. We all know why you don't like it, and there's a reason the development team upgraded it and came out with something much better. Go get version 2.something instead. The menu items are fixed. Things pretty much behave like normal. All the tools you need and expect are there. You also have to realize that GIMP isn't trying to be an exact Photoshop mirror. There are some analogies to FireWorks and PShopPro hidden in there as well. With the exception of being able to assign effects to layers (something I admin is a very powerful capability in Photoshop) you can pretty much do what you need to do in the GIMP. If you really want to give yourself a kick in the pants, go visit the gallery section over at the GIMP User Group site. If you really dig in, I think you're going to be suprised to find there are some things that GIMP can do that Photoshop can't.
Yes, but fashion goods tend to be a whole lot more disposable than hard goods. They are also seasonal because of... the seasons. If you spent a lot of money on a blue wool peacoat this winter and wore it for three months, then next winter you buy a different winter coat that's in style... is that still a 3 month product cycle? It's not like you're going out wearing it today (unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case your coat was outdated when you bought it). Are this years spring colors outdated by this years summer colors, or are this years spring colors replaced by next years spring colors?
Also, the designers right NOW are designing for the spring and summer of 2005... so if you're a designer you won't be 3 seasons off. That would be like saying that if you worked for Konico and today had the prototype of the next cycle's camera.
And don't forget, there will always be things within any market that basically ignore trends: Levis 501s, etc.
I see this falling in line with the whole guns down kill people... people kill people argument.
Or more closely... If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.
It's the same thing. If you blacklist IPs, then only blacklisted spammers will get IPs.
As much as I'd hate to agree with you...
Shouldn't it be possible for someone to create a browser helper object that closes all the doors, shuts the windows, throws the deadbolt, and covers all the other security holes.
Or along those same lines, shouldn't it be possible to create an ActiveX drive-by that downloads and installs Firefox, and edits all the IE shortcuts to point to firefox.exe instead.