So, you're saying the Win98 way of booting DOS, then executing win.com after autoexec.bat is actually an improvement over XP?
No, I'm asking how you can say that's worse but the linux way of booting linux and then executing gnome is an improvement on XP.
In XP, Windows *is* the OS, and if Windows doesn't start, nothing starts. And there is one of the big problems in integrating the registry so deeply in Windows. Gnome's registry isn't integrated in the OS. No matter how badly it gets destroyed, the OS is still going to start, and you can go in and fix it, or just delete it if you don't mind losing the settings it contains
Point, but for a typical user editing the gnome registry via the commandline is going to be at least as hard as booting a recovery cd and fixing the winxp registry.
(I run Gnome programs, and I don't think I even have a Gnome registry. Every program still has it's own settings file, so you're not going to lose a lot).
They're all accessed via the registry, the daemon runs transparently and the application modifies its own settings (but then so do most windows applications) but the registry is still there, I'm not sure applications would know where to find their config files if the registry got hosed, and certainly they'd be messed up if the access mechanism was broken.
Can Windows boot if you delete the registry?
No, but is losing all your settings any better? Repairing with the xp disc is pretty quick and gives you a good chance of recovering most of them, rm -R ~/.gnome would be faster but recovering what you could would probably take longer.
The problem is that VIA doesn't really play nicely with Linux,
They play a lot better than most I've seen. Helpful on the driver side as I understand, and I was pleasantly surprised to see source linux drivers on the CD with my last via board. And if your board has hardware mpeg2 they produce a modified xine to utilize them, and it's on sourceforge.
My favorite quote on there is: "Keep in mind that this is not yet part of any W3C or other official standard. At this time it is necessary to bend the rules in order to have full keyboard accessibility."
But isn't this what MS did long ago to make the better browser experience over NS?
Implementing something that isn't in any standard is one thing - an analogous thing with IE would perhaps be introducing activex (which is rightly trashed for the security holes it creates, but no one blames MS for its non-standardness). Not implementing the standard properly or implementing it incompletely (e.g. MS-Java, IE's broken CSS, transparent PNGs), or redoing something for which there is a perfectly good standard (did this happen with javascript? I can't remember), is something different, and it's the latter that's a problem.
and then what happens after that? How do we get better dev tools and code to use in our web-apps (the w3 doesn't seem on top of new tech)?
It's perfectly alright to introduce something that there isn't a standard for - if it succeeds, it will be adopted as a standard, and if it fails, it will just disappear. However, I don't think the web needs new standards - it's fine for what it's meant to do, other things would be better done via plugins or new protocols than kludging them into the web's standards.
There's a big difference between Gnome, the window manager, and Linux, the OS underneath it. Linux will still work and you can still use the terminal if the window manager or even X11 doesn't work.
True, just like you could use the dos prompt if win98 didn't work. But for practical purposes most users on a distro that's standardised on gnome will be using entirely gnome programs, and if the gnome registry breaks it will break all the programs they use, not just the web browser or the email client or the word processor like if a single config file breaks. The computer might be usable, but they're no better than if they'd lost all of their configs, because they probably won't have configured the alternative email clients etc.
Duff mentions in the description of his device "I have another revolting way to use switches to implement interrupt driven state machines but it's too horrid to go into." Could this be Duff's second device?
Oh yes, easy, provided you don't mind editing a config file. Basically you need to add Option "TwinView", Option "Metamodes" with the resolution combinations, Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" and Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" with appropriate values to the device section in your xorg.conf. For apps to recognise it as two screens you need to have it giving xinerama info, but I think that's enabled by default.
In the end the consumer will always pay no matter what happens.
Why does someone say this in every thread? Newsflash: companies, including financial institutions, make profits. If they could increase their profit by charging the customer more they would do it - being public companies they're obliged to under law. They have no way to pass the costs on - if they increase costs to the customer they will lose more through the customers they lose. The bank, or more correctly its shareholders, *will* pay.
The irony is that the Registry reflects Microsoft's company structure, i.e centralised, as compared to any OSS OS where there are hundreds of competing config files in different formats which ensure that the OS won't become unusable if one of them goes down.
Flamebait as hell but I find it amusing that the same is true of gnome. They have a registry system, yes the actual files are around but try editing them without using the registry editor, and their development seems a lot more centralized than KDE's.
Open source has innovative projects going on. Sure, most of OSS is incremental improvements (if any improvement at all) on what has been done before, but so is most of what anyone does.
One can only hope this one disappears. Anyone who has been on the receiving end of a security audit done by some dork who lives in his parents basement who hung out a shingle as a security analyist and basically only runs Nessus without any interpretation
That's not a security audit, and think how much worse it would be if he didn't have nessus.
Nessus is a tool for someone who knows about security, not a replacement for such a person. You don't blame dreamweaver for all the poorly-designed websites around, do you?
They've been headed that way ever since they did that dodgy plugin licensing thing. Anyone feel like starting a community project to make the free one better?
Its gravitational force would be much greater than our sun's. If so much mass is compressed in a 12 mile in diameter area, then imagine how much a simple teaspoon of matter would end up weighing in this star. The way I understand it, the more tightly compact mass is, the greater its gravitational effect within an ever decreasing sorrounding area.
The same amount of mass will always produce the same amount of force no matter how compressed. The difference is that you're much closer to the center on the surface, and since gravity follows an inverse-square law the force will be a helluva lot more on the surface of such a dense object than that of a huge ball with the same mass. But the force (say) 10000km from the centre will be the same.
Responding to stimuli is the biggie, though there are other criteria like reproduction normally used as well. Don't you remember your high school biology?
Every day a one in a million event happens. So does a one in a thousand even. Are they both equally likely?
No. But an AC post getting to +5 is far more likely than either of them.
Do you see how circular your reasoning is? The effectiveness of the moderation system is not dependent on your agreement with it's results. If you disagreed with it, would it be less effective?
The entire purpose of the moderation system is to moderate posts in a way the community as a whole agrees with. So yes, although not significantly if it was me alone, but I take my opinions as being reasonably reflective of the community. Like if there were elections in a community of me and like-minded people, I'd expect a result pretty close to what I wanted, say the election had worked properly if such a thing happened, and suspect fraud if some far-out candidate I couldn't imagine voting for won. This doesn't work in real life because local communities are far less homogenous than that of slashdot, but I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with the reasoning, and if everybody uses it things work out fine - a representative candidate, or moderation, will get a small outcry, while an unrepresentative one gets a far larger one.
AC's being moderated highly is rare. (They start at 0, after all)
You'll find an AC at +5 in any thread.
Having the (presumably) same AC being modded up twice in the same thread is suspicious.
Again, I see this all the time, when the AC knows something or is simply making good points they can easily get two or even 3 +5 posts (and last I saw, all this one had was one +5 and one +3).
It smells like moderation abuse. The "it's right because the post is correct" argument doesn't refute that evidence
The post appears to be genuinely insightful, and since it has been moderated as such the moderation system is working correctly.
Now, see, I've had the opposite experience. ReiserFS has never lost anything for me, and I managed to get all the data off it after a pretty nasty partition messup, while I've had occasional problems with other filesystems I've tried. I think personal experience can go either way on things like this, just goes to show anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all. I would be interested to see some reliability benchmarks, though I'm not sure how one would produce such a thing.
WTF? Good (correct) posts get modded up, that's how it's meant to work, there is evidence it works that way. I really don't get what you are trying to say
Sounds like the people that wanted to sue Microsoft, but didn't have anything go wrong for them, got caught.
They'd been supplied with a defective product. They couldn't use that feature because it loses data, they might have had trouble selling the OS since it doesn't work properly. They should have got replacements.
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No, I'm asking how you can say that's worse but the linux way of booting linux and then executing gnome is an improvement on XP.
In XP, Windows *is* the OS, and if Windows doesn't start, nothing starts. And there is one of the big problems in integrating the registry so deeply in Windows. Gnome's registry isn't integrated in the OS. No matter how badly it gets destroyed, the OS is still going to start, and you can go in and fix it, or just delete it if you don't mind losing the settings it contains
Point, but for a typical user editing the gnome registry via the commandline is going to be at least as hard as booting a recovery cd and fixing the winxp registry.
(I run Gnome programs, and I don't think I even have a Gnome registry. Every program still has it's own settings file, so you're not going to lose a lot).
They're all accessed via the registry, the daemon runs transparently and the application modifies its own settings (but then so do most windows applications) but the registry is still there, I'm not sure applications would know where to find their config files if the registry got hosed, and certainly they'd be messed up if the access mechanism was broken.
Can Windows boot if you delete the registry?
No, but is losing all your settings any better? Repairing with the xp disc is pretty quick and gives you a good chance of recovering most of them, rm -R ~/.gnome would be faster but recovering what you could would probably take longer.
You know, an extension system that can fix it isn't an excuse for a feature not working properly.
They play a lot better than most I've seen. Helpful on the driver side as I understand, and I was pleasantly surprised to see source linux drivers on the CD with my last via board. And if your board has hardware mpeg2 they produce a modified xine to utilize them, and it's on sourceforge.
Implementing something that isn't in any standard is one thing - an analogous thing with IE would perhaps be introducing activex (which is rightly trashed for the security holes it creates, but no one blames MS for its non-standardness). Not implementing the standard properly or implementing it incompletely (e.g. MS-Java, IE's broken CSS, transparent PNGs), or redoing something for which there is a perfectly good standard (did this happen with javascript? I can't remember), is something different, and it's the latter that's a problem.
and then what happens after that? How do we get better dev tools and code to use in our web-apps (the w3 doesn't seem on top of new tech)?
It's perfectly alright to introduce something that there isn't a standard for - if it succeeds, it will be adopted as a standard, and if it fails, it will just disappear. However, I don't think the web needs new standards - it's fine for what it's meant to do, other things would be better done via plugins or new protocols than kludging them into the web's standards.
They've taken out the ads but not changed the browser itself.
True, just like you could use the dos prompt if win98 didn't work. But for practical purposes most users on a distro that's standardised on gnome will be using entirely gnome programs, and if the gnome registry breaks it will break all the programs they use, not just the web browser or the email client or the word processor like if a single config file breaks. The computer might be usable, but they're no better than if they'd lost all of their configs, because they probably won't have configured the alternative email clients etc.
Other than Java being a horrible language for low-level programming. There are times when you need the close-to-the-hardware aspect of C.
Duff mentions in the description of his device "I have another revolting way to use switches to implement interrupt driven state machines but it's too horrid to go into." Could this be Duff's second device?
Oh yes, easy, provided you don't mind editing a config file. Basically you need to add Option "TwinView", Option "Metamodes" with the resolution combinations, Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" and Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" with appropriate values to the device section in your xorg.conf. For apps to recognise it as two screens you need to have it giving xinerama info, but I think that's enabled by default.
Why does someone say this in every thread? Newsflash: companies, including financial institutions, make profits. If they could increase their profit by charging the customer more they would do it - being public companies they're obliged to under law. They have no way to pass the costs on - if they increase costs to the customer they will lose more through the customers they lose. The bank, or more correctly its shareholders, *will* pay.
Flamebait as hell but I find it amusing that the same is true of gnome. They have a registry system, yes the actual files are around but try editing them without using the registry editor, and their development seems a lot more centralized than KDE's.
Open source has innovative projects going on. Sure, most of OSS is incremental improvements (if any improvement at all) on what has been done before, but so is most of what anyone does.
That's not a security audit, and think how much worse it would be if he didn't have nessus.
Nessus is a tool for someone who knows about security, not a replacement for such a person. You don't blame dreamweaver for all the poorly-designed websites around, do you?
They've been headed that way ever since they did that dodgy plugin licensing thing. Anyone feel like starting a community project to make the free one better?
Actually the patents in question apply to fat32 aka vfat rather than fat16, which was introduced in windows (IIRC 95).
The same amount of mass will always produce the same amount of force no matter how compressed. The difference is that you're much closer to the center on the surface, and since gravity follows an inverse-square law the force will be a helluva lot more on the surface of such a dense object than that of a huge ball with the same mass. But the force (say) 10000km from the centre will be the same.
Responding to stimuli is the biggie, though there are other criteria like reproduction normally used as well. Don't you remember your high school biology?
Come on, an exploding snake is hilarious no matter what the serious consequences.
Tinfoil-hat response: they leaked the story to sound out what the public reaction to such a format would be.
They're having to change, and no one but young people likes change. The important thing is they're doing it.
No. But an AC post getting to +5 is far more likely than either of them.
Do you see how circular your reasoning is? The effectiveness of the moderation system is not dependent on your agreement with it's results. If you disagreed with it, would it be less effective?
The entire purpose of the moderation system is to moderate posts in a way the community as a whole agrees with. So yes, although not significantly if it was me alone, but I take my opinions as being reasonably reflective of the community. Like if there were elections in a community of me and like-minded people, I'd expect a result pretty close to what I wanted, say the election had worked properly if such a thing happened, and suspect fraud if some far-out candidate I couldn't imagine voting for won. This doesn't work in real life because local communities are far less homogenous than that of slashdot, but I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with the reasoning, and if everybody uses it things work out fine - a representative candidate, or moderation, will get a small outcry, while an unrepresentative one gets a far larger one.
You'll find an AC at +5 in any thread.
Having the (presumably) same AC being modded up twice in the same thread is suspicious.
Again, I see this all the time, when the AC knows something or is simply making good points they can easily get two or even 3 +5 posts (and last I saw, all this one had was one +5 and one +3).
It smells like moderation abuse. The "it's right because the post is correct" argument doesn't refute that evidence
The post appears to be genuinely insightful, and since it has been moderated as such the moderation system is working correctly.
Now, see, I've had the opposite experience. ReiserFS has never lost anything for me, and I managed to get all the data off it after a pretty nasty partition messup, while I've had occasional problems with other filesystems I've tried. I think personal experience can go either way on things like this, just goes to show anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all. I would be interested to see some reliability benchmarks, though I'm not sure how one would produce such a thing.
WTF? Good (correct) posts get modded up, that's how it's meant to work, there is evidence it works that way. I really don't get what you are trying to say
They'd been supplied with a defective product. They couldn't use that feature because it loses data, they might have had trouble selling the OS since it doesn't work properly. They should have got replacements.