If you'd tried to implement xdnd you'd know the answer to that. It's horrible. And basic IPC is too limited. Gnome-settings-daemon, though, is solving a problem that doesn't exist, basically letting you store settings in a registry rather than a config file (after the amount we moan about the windows registry, you'd think they'd realise it's a bad idea, but no).
That's because the trollish articles are the only ones that get posted to slashdot. Really, if you follow the site, you'll find far less trolling than here in general.
The shipping of spatial nautilus, and the reversed confirmation dialog, both with no way to turn them off (yes this was corrected in the next.z release, but really, it should never have been shipped like that), should have made this clear to everyone.
1. Remember that Nintendo actually started the playstation project. 2. That was for a simple reason: load times. Nintendo thought the CD load times were too long for gamers, and from my experience on the playstation they were right. They went with discs for gamecube only when they'd got the load times down to something acceptable.
Still no biggie. I've been doing that for years with my mp3-cd player. Put SLAX on there (It has everything you need for normal use), or system rescue cd if you want it for "recovery", or austrumi if you really want as much space available as possible, then fill the rest of the cd with mp3s. Lovely. Even if I have enough distros with me I'll put a bootable cinemix image on all my media cds so I can do something by booting it.
No, it's a posessive. "The group at IBM which belongs to him apparently created this stuff". Ok technically it should perhaps be whom's, but that would sound really odd.
The whole point of USB is not that it's just for keyboards, it's for everything. So there is no need for firewire when you have USB. It has a niche in video at the moment, but that's because video cameras still use tape and have to play back the data as it is. Once there's a move to "normal" media and videos are just files like still images (and it is happening) then they can be treated as mass storage like anything else, and you won't need firewire for video. Inertia will keep it going for a while, but I expect it to die out. Why have the two busses when one can do everything you need?
England has only been invaded 4 times, and two of those were so gradual they hardly count. And Germany as such has only existed a few hundred years, although granted they managed to lose two major wars in that time. I take your point though.
That's always been the way it is, in pretty much any country. I wonder how he got caught at all - the only way I can think of is if the industry association was offering the things for download itself, which smacks of entrapment.
Bah, they were the ones who pushed for the blank media tax. If it hadn't come out this way, they'd just be getting money for nothing from that. So it's completely right.
Oh yes. Because looking exclusively at what big businesses are selling to other businesses and ignoring what home users choose for themselves will really give a fair and balanced picture of which desktop the users prefer.
It doesn't work like that for programming languages. Force someone to program in a different language and you will make them a better programmer, no matter what their opinion of it is. Learning perl made me a better python programmer, and learning python will make perl programmers better perl programmers. And if you haven't tried python, you don't know if you'll like it. I generally dislike functional languages, but I'm now learning Haskell and enjoying it, so it's worth trying even a language of a type you normally don't like.
Kasparov wouldn't be allowed to talk to his coach and read a book to learn a new opening between games in the same series, would he? You can adjust yourself but you can't get external help, which Deep Blue had.
Mods, please start modding this argument down as the troll that it is rather than giving free insightfulness to anyone who writes it. THE REASON WE ARE OBBJECTING IS THE CHERRYOS GUY CLAIMED HE WROTE IT. HE *CLAIMED* *AUTHORSHIP* OF IT. WE HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH COPYING CHERRYOS. WE WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM IF THE FILESHARERS WERE CLAIMING THEY WERE SINGING THE SONGS THEY WERE SHARING. BUT THEY'RE NOT. THE TWO CASES ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. SO STOP CRYING HIPOCRISY. Apologies for shouting, but this needs to be pounded into some people's thick skulls because that's the only way they will take any notice. This bit is just filler because the lameness filter does not like me having yelled. So, staying vaguely on topic, www.last.fm is really good. Try it. It's a radio station that plays the kind of music you like. Takes a bit of "training" for it to become accurate, but it combines with audioscrobbler to get a profile from the music you already have. Discover the more of the kind of stuff people like you like.
I suspect many people willing to support it were turned off or not let in by the foundation's elitist approach to which developers work on it. With a community dev team where you don't have to jump through hoops to get onto it, I think more people will be able to contribute.
The large portions who are using filesharing networks to infringe copyright. There are a lot of people doing it, really a lot. And who do the laws serve? They're meant to serve the people, not follow some idea of what's "moral". Except in a few cases (basically anywhere where minorities and (possibly or) basic rights are involved) if the majority of the populace does not support a law, the law should not exist.
There is still demand, obviously. The mozilla devs are quite elitist, there's certainly enough people who want to maintain it that couldn't "make the team" with the official project.
For the first, the problem is that firefox has been deliberately "dumbed down" to appeal to a broader audience. They stripped the advanced features out, they're not going to add them back in. For the second, compatiability is not the same as integration, and integration doesn't require being written by the same people but it does require that app A can assume app B is installed. And there's another reason to prefer the suite: code sharing. Yes, this should be done via a dynamic library or several. But with windows's poor package managment this isn't really feasible - you'd have to either include a copy with each suite component and hope someone didn't install whichever component has the older version after whichever has a newer version in the latest release (which would cause massive borkination), or require users to download a separate "mozilla-core" package as well as any applications they wanted, which windows users wouldn't want to do.
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If you'd tried to implement xdnd you'd know the answer to that. It's horrible. And basic IPC is too limited. Gnome-settings-daemon, though, is solving a problem that doesn't exist, basically letting you store settings in a registry rather than a config file (after the amount we moan about the windows registry, you'd think they'd realise it's a bad idea, but no).
That's because the trollish articles are the only ones that get posted to slashdot. Really, if you follow the site, you'll find far less trolling than here in general.
The shipping of spatial nautilus, and the reversed confirmation dialog, both with no way to turn them off (yes this was corrected in the next .z release, but really, it should never have been shipped like that), should have made this clear to everyone.
because the story so obviously belongs at -1, Troll
What? You don't ph34r the p0hw3r of my gamecube web server?:) Seriously, why do you particularly want linux on the DS?
Yeah...but I bet people were saying exactly the same thing when they introduced the things you list - 4-port play, rumble packs etc.
If you have the playstation, why not just play your existing games on that?
1. Remember that Nintendo actually started the playstation project. 2. That was for a simple reason: load times. Nintendo thought the CD load times were too long for gamers, and from my experience on the playstation they were right. They went with discs for gamecube only when they'd got the load times down to something acceptable.
Still no biggie. I've been doing that for years with my mp3-cd player. Put SLAX on there (It has everything you need for normal use), or system rescue cd if you want it for "recovery", or austrumi if you really want as much space available as possible, then fill the rest of the cd with mp3s. Lovely. Even if I have enough distros with me I'll put a bootable cinemix image on all my media cds so I can do something by booting it.
No, it's a posessive. "The group at IBM which belongs to him apparently created this stuff". Ok technically it should perhaps be whom's, but that would sound really odd.
The whole point of USB is not that it's just for keyboards, it's for everything. So there is no need for firewire when you have USB. It has a niche in video at the moment, but that's because video cameras still use tape and have to play back the data as it is. Once there's a move to "normal" media and videos are just files like still images (and it is happening) then they can be treated as mass storage like anything else, and you won't need firewire for video. Inertia will keep it going for a while, but I expect it to die out. Why have the two busses when one can do everything you need?
England has only been invaded 4 times, and two of those were so gradual they hardly count. And Germany as such has only existed a few hundred years, although granted they managed to lose two major wars in that time. I take your point though.
That's always been the way it is, in pretty much any country. I wonder how he got caught at all - the only way I can think of is if the industry association was offering the things for download itself, which smacks of entrapment.
Yes, but KDE is the primary desktop. Still, including the alternative at all is more than most Gnome distros do.
Bah, they were the ones who pushed for the blank media tax. If it hadn't come out this way, they'd just be getting money for nothing from that. So it's completely right.
Oh yes. Because looking exclusively at what big businesses are selling to other businesses and ignoring what home users choose for themselves will really give a fair and balanced picture of which desktop the users prefer.
It doesn't work like that for programming languages. Force someone to program in a different language and you will make them a better programmer, no matter what their opinion of it is. Learning perl made me a better python programmer, and learning python will make perl programmers better perl programmers. And if you haven't tried python, you don't know if you'll like it. I generally dislike functional languages, but I'm now learning Haskell and enjoying it, so it's worth trying even a language of a type you normally don't like.
Kasparov wouldn't be allowed to talk to his coach and read a book to learn a new opening between games in the same series, would he? You can adjust yourself but you can't get external help, which Deep Blue had.
You don't see it anymore because top 40 stuff is compressed the hell out of already to make it sound louder.
Mods, please start modding this argument down as the troll that it is rather than giving free insightfulness to anyone who writes it. THE REASON WE ARE OBBJECTING IS THE CHERRYOS GUY CLAIMED HE WROTE IT. HE *CLAIMED* *AUTHORSHIP* OF IT. WE HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH COPYING CHERRYOS. WE WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM IF THE FILESHARERS WERE CLAIMING THEY WERE SINGING THE SONGS THEY WERE SHARING. BUT THEY'RE NOT. THE TWO CASES ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. SO STOP CRYING HIPOCRISY. Apologies for shouting, but this needs to be pounded into some people's thick skulls because that's the only way they will take any notice. This bit is just filler because the lameness filter does not like me having yelled. So, staying vaguely on topic, www.last.fm is really good. Try it. It's a radio station that plays the kind of music you like. Takes a bit of "training" for it to become accurate, but it combines with audioscrobbler to get a profile from the music you already have. Discover the more of the kind of stuff people like you like.
I suspect many people willing to support it were turned off or not let in by the foundation's elitist approach to which developers work on it. With a community dev team where you don't have to jump through hoops to get onto it, I think more people will be able to contribute.
Don't let them in then? Contempt of court is iirc ~£40 fine, nothing next to the cost of settling with the likes of the RIAA.
The large portions who are using filesharing networks to infringe copyright. There are a lot of people doing it, really a lot. And who do the laws serve? They're meant to serve the people, not follow some idea of what's "moral". Except in a few cases (basically anywhere where minorities and (possibly or) basic rights are involved) if the majority of the populace does not support a law, the law should not exist.
There is still demand, obviously. The mozilla devs are quite elitist, there's certainly enough people who want to maintain it that couldn't "make the team" with the official project.
For the first, the problem is that firefox has been deliberately "dumbed down" to appeal to a broader audience. They stripped the advanced features out, they're not going to add them back in. For the second, compatiability is not the same as integration, and integration doesn't require being written by the same people but it does require that app A can assume app B is installed. And there's another reason to prefer the suite: code sharing. Yes, this should be done via a dynamic library or several. But with windows's poor package managment this isn't really feasible - you'd have to either include a copy with each suite component and hope someone didn't install whichever component has the older version after whichever has a newer version in the latest release (which would cause massive borkination), or require users to download a separate "mozilla-core" package as well as any applications they wanted, which windows users wouldn't want to do.