You miss the point entirely..
When I browse a share on a network server, I should be able to double-click those files and open them without having to jump through hoops.
It works on Windows, MacOS, shit it even worked on OS/2. Yet for some reason I'm still expected to write a shell script on Linux and that's deemed as OK to you. Boggles my mind.
No, not at all. Currently in gnome when you want to browse a network share gnome creates a virtual file system connection which only works for gnome applications. Instead of that gnome could use sudo to mount the network share. The user doesn't have to do it. Just the shell/desktop environment.
My wife and I both use gimp. When I use it on her system I find it very clumsy because she uses click to focus, while I use focus follows mouse.
It could be that the people who like the gimp UI work like me and don't experience the focus problems you get if you have to click in a window before using a key.
The current one is horrible. By default it opens an empty image window and a toolbox window. If you close either of these two windows the application exits. I with they had never fiddled with the UI. The original one was very good IMO.
...are invariably ripped off when their work is used, particularly after their death. Philip K Dick died in poverty. The catering budget for Minority Report would have made him a rich man. Many great painters lived their lives in poverty, and their works made money for collectors after their death. Many modern SF movies contain elements ripped from books without payment. Trinity from The Matrix is Molly from Neuromancer.
So yeah, Harlan Ellison is a PITA (I have a copy of The Starcrossed here, HE is kind of a character in that book). But I think he is right to stick it to movie producers.
Free software kind of works because if I write (say) apache and (say) IBM wants to turn it into their own web server the easiest thing for them to do is to hire me to do it.
OTH if you are making The Matrix then hiring William Gibson to write your screenplay is actually not the best thing to do so he doesn't get paid for ideas of his which wind up being used in the screenplay.
Did he ever get paid for The Terminator, or did he just get the acknowledgment in the credits?
Personally I think it is good that fragments of great old stories see the light of day in franchise movies but it is a shame the original writers don't get paid. The Matix is a good example, I think.
When you say kill -9 you imply that the iphone is running unix and that there is a process in the background which can send the signal. If that is the case I don't see why you shouldn't be able to install sshd or apache and just have it run.
You might be the right person to ask this. I commute on a fairly good mountain bike. My biggest maintenance issue is with the rear gear shift. The nine speed system is must harder to keep calibrated than my old seven speed bikes. It really is a PITA.
The hydraulic disc brakes OTH are absolutely fantastic. Easily 10 times easier to maintain than cable actuated caliper brakes.
So I would love to see a hydraulic gear shift. Do you know if anybody is working on that? It would be fantastic.
If anything Windows is going to become predominant in the data centre while embedded linux based thin clients sit on the desktop. Similar in some ways to mainframe/mini computer operating systems when windows took over the desktop.
Most of us bathe in kilowatts of infra red radiation at shorter wavelengths (and higher photon energy) than microwaves. I don't see how photons of lower energy could be causing us problems.
If the US took out the USSR they would have been attacked by pretty much every other country in the world with the capability to do so. Once you establish a track record like that nobody will trust you.
Google haven't closed the service. They have just blocked third party apps from using it. AOL might just do that if a different client starts using this to send messages.
I know somebody who set up an SMS spamming company in about 2000. He was always on the lookout for ways to send tens of thousands of SMS messages for free.
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You miss the point entirely.. When I browse a share on a network server, I should be able to double-click those files and open them without having to jump through hoops. It works on Windows, MacOS, shit it even worked on OS/2. Yet for some reason I'm still expected to write a shell script on Linux and that's deemed as OK to you. Boggles my mind.
No, not at all. Currently in gnome when you want to browse a network share gnome creates a virtual file system connection which only works for gnome applications. Instead of that gnome could use sudo to mount the network share. The user doesn't have to do it. Just the shell/desktop environment.
Wow, in a discussion about how shit doesn't work like it should without going geek on it, you tell me to use "sudo." Wonderful.
No, gnome would use sudo. All it needs is one line allowing one gnome script to run as root. Once written it should work okay.
Is it just me or are they channeling THX1138?
Gnome and kde should be mounting with smbfs. Its easy to do as a user. Just use sudo.
Its easy to blame the yanks but if their requirements are the same for NZ and China then NZ must already be compliant.
My wife and I both use gimp. When I use it on her system I find it very clumsy because she uses click to focus, while I use focus follows mouse.
It could be that the people who like the gimp UI work like me and don't experience the focus problems you get if you have to click in a window before using a key.
The current one is horrible. By default it opens an empty image window and a toolbox window. If you close either of these two windows the application exits. I with they had never fiddled with the UI. The original one was very good IMO.
You could just get away with:
"UK Gov. Clueless"
As much as I love sticking it to the poms I don't think their government has the patent on cluelessness.
...you don't link to the blacklist.
Why explicitly specify port 80?
Its because nobody told you the port number where all the really cool stuff is.
...are invariably ripped off when their work is used, particularly after their death. Philip K Dick died in poverty. The catering budget for Minority Report would have made him a rich man. Many great painters lived their lives in poverty, and their works made money for collectors after their death. Many modern SF movies contain elements ripped from books without payment. Trinity from The Matrix is Molly from Neuromancer.
So yeah, Harlan Ellison is a PITA (I have a copy of The Starcrossed here, HE is kind of a character in that book). But I think he is right to stick it to movie producers.
Free software kind of works because if I write (say) apache and (say) IBM wants to turn it into their own web server the easiest thing for them to do is to hire me to do it.
OTH if you are making The Matrix then hiring William Gibson to write your screenplay is actually not the best thing to do so he doesn't get paid for ideas of his which wind up being used in the screenplay.
Did he ever get paid for The Terminator, or did he just get the acknowledgment in the credits?
Personally I think it is good that fragments of great old stories see the light of day in franchise movies but it is a shame the original writers don't get paid. The Matix is a good example, I think.
So the technical argument about not being able to run background processes is wrong.
Yeah its like crocodiles. As long as we keep feeding children to them they stay cosy in their niche.
When you say kill -9 you imply that the iphone is running unix and that there is a process in the background which can send the signal. If that is the case I don't see why you shouldn't be able to install sshd or apache and just have it run.
You might be the right person to ask this. I commute on a fairly good mountain bike. My biggest maintenance issue is with the rear gear shift. The nine speed system is must harder to keep calibrated than my old seven speed bikes. It really is a PITA.
The hydraulic disc brakes OTH are absolutely fantastic. Easily 10 times easier to maintain than cable actuated caliper brakes.
So I would love to see a hydraulic gear shift. Do you know if anybody is working on that? It would be fantastic.
No, its Overrated.
If anything Windows is going to become predominant in the data centre while embedded linux based thin clients sit on the desktop. Similar in some ways to mainframe/mini computer operating systems when windows took over the desktop.
Do you mean radar for smart wheels?
Most of us bathe in kilowatts of infra red radiation at shorter wavelengths (and higher photon energy) than microwaves. I don't see how photons of lower energy could be causing us problems.
At 30-300 Ghz wireless toasts you!
Not if there is a wall between you and the transmitter though.
If the US took out the USSR they would have been attacked by pretty much every other country in the world with the capability to do so. Once you establish a track record like that nobody will trust you.
Maybe I should have checked the book first.
Google haven't closed the service. They have just blocked third party apps from using it. AOL might just do that if a different client starts using this to send messages.
I know somebody who set up an SMS spamming company in about 2000. He was always on the lookout for ways to send tens of thousands of SMS messages for free.