Ads on channels you pay for are wrong. Completely. We pay for the BBC through the Licence Fee, and all they do is let us know about other shows they're offering that we may be interested in. These take the form of the 30 second gaps whilst the next show is lined up properly. I'm not too familiar with TV in the states, but from what I've seen when I've been over there is that it takes the format of 20 minutes of a show, followed by 15 minutes of advertising. Is this true for even paid channels?
You have no legal or moral obligation to watch advertising, it's only your choice.
Yes, but you don't have the balls to post as anything other than AC. I think my comment has more weight than yours.
I use Windows as my primary desktop because it is the best platform out there for what I need to do. For graphical work, I use the Mac Mini which is sat next to me, then I move the files to where they're needed through the Gentoo file server sat upstairs.
Sheep use one OS regardless, some people use the best tool for the job. What do you do?
Hey! I'm one of those Windows users, and I'm fairly certain I'm not just a sheep.
Anyway, Linux isn't ready for desktop usage yet. I've come up with a 3-step plan (Sadly no profit, this is free software after all) for this.
1. Come up with some decent standards for interoperability, package distribution, user interface, and network administration.
2. Implement these standards in all major open source applications.
3. Wait for the changes to slowly propogate and the end users to learn the altered (hopefully far nicer to use) commands etc.
Once this is done, and 'Linux' can function as a single entity as far as the end user is concerned, then it can begin to become a major desktop platform.
Come on. There's "Works for Sure" for Windows Media; why not "This is gonna just work" for Linux instead of "This will work if you're lucky, or recompile it with these switches and a patched version of this library".
As opposed to the Linux LDAP implementation, which magically absorbs the heirachy structure and names through the ether then configures all the clients to work in sweet harmony whilst replacing the systems admin with a chauffeur called Les?
AD isn't perfect, I never said it was. But it's a damn sight easier to use and far more integrated than LDAP.
Use LDAP where appropriate, use AD where appropriate. AD is best suited to corporate situations, and unless the Linux community can come up with some decent standards (Yes! Standards!) for things such as network administration then it's not going to break into big corporate environments.
One is free, but needs a lot of implementation to get it to work.
One costs, but it's damn easy to use.
Personally, for mucking around improving skills I'd use the Linux/LDAP but as soon as you hit a corporate environment, Group Policy wins hands down for speed, integration and ease of use.
We need more people like you who go "Screw the rest, we'll code to standards and if it doesn't work then tough". The standards are there to be used as such, and if a browser doesn't play along with the standards then it's safe to be ignored.
Nah, at least China doesn't call it a "Freedom Firewall".
You're thinking of the proposed USA firewall, which will be called the "Freedom Firewall" and will be powered using "Patriotic Server Technology" operated by "Real American Men And Women" who live on "Freedom Fries" and whatever the hell that ketchup is called.
I'd say it conveys "collision". "Crash" implies an accident whereas "collision" just implies that something impacted something else, causing a change in momentum.
Expose on OS X does more than that. Hit F9 (iirc) and it tiles all your windows so you can see what's open, then click the one you want and it brings it to the forefront, but full sized again. Tapping F10 tiles all open applications of the same type as the currently selected one.
I want the representation of my Recycle Bin to show me how 'full' it is (as a function of the size of files in there against the total disk volume/free space/etc.
As in when it needs emptying, I want crap to become strewn across my desktop.
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Doesn't bother me, I still get the BBC.
Ads on channels you pay for are wrong. Completely. We pay for the BBC through the Licence Fee, and all they do is let us know about other shows they're offering that we may be interested in. These take the form of the 30 second gaps whilst the next show is lined up properly. I'm not too familiar with TV in the states, but from what I've seen when I've been over there is that it takes the format of 20 minutes of a show, followed by 15 minutes of advertising. Is this true for even paid channels?
You have no legal or moral obligation to watch advertising, it's only your choice.
Umm... you've just found an argument against it.
I don't want people on my morning commute watching videos, especially on close-packed public transport. Who knows what they're watching?
I was just thinking something the same and then I saw this.
I also get the feeling that Apple would go for some sexy sweeping colours on boot, maybe have the keyboard pulse gently to music playing in iTunes...
Yes, but you don't have the balls to post as anything other than AC. I think my comment has more weight than yours.
I use Windows as my primary desktop because it is the best platform out there for what I need to do. For graphical work, I use the Mac Mini which is sat next to me, then I move the files to where they're needed through the Gentoo file server sat upstairs.
Sheep use one OS regardless, some people use the best tool for the job. What do you do?
Hey! I'm one of those Windows users, and I'm fairly certain I'm not just a sheep.
Anyway, Linux isn't ready for desktop usage yet. I've come up with a 3-step plan (Sadly no profit, this is free software after all) for this.
1. Come up with some decent standards for interoperability, package distribution, user interface, and network administration.
2. Implement these standards in all major open source applications.
3. Wait for the changes to slowly propogate and the end users to learn the altered (hopefully far nicer to use) commands etc.
Once this is done, and 'Linux' can function as a single entity as far as the end user is concerned, then it can begin to become a major desktop platform.
Come on. There's "Works for Sure" for Windows Media; why not "This is gonna just work" for Linux instead of "This will work if you're lucky, or recompile it with these switches and a patched version of this library".
You're playing Canadian Set rules though, so Mornington Crescent can only be reached following a parallel move from a position in spoon, surely?
PocketPC and AvantGo. Works a treat.
As opposed to the Linux LDAP implementation, which magically absorbs the heirachy structure and names through the ether then configures all the clients to work in sweet harmony whilst replacing the systems admin with a chauffeur called Les?
AD isn't perfect, I never said it was. But it's a damn sight easier to use and far more integrated than LDAP.
Use LDAP where appropriate, use AD where appropriate. AD is best suited to corporate situations, and unless the Linux community can come up with some decent standards (Yes! Standards!) for things such as network administration then it's not going to break into big corporate environments.
It's pointless coding to a standard you don't understand, and even more so to claim that you've implemented it.
All my recent code validates to the doctype it declares itself as, using the W3C validator. If a browser doesn't implement it as expected, tough.
One is free, but needs a lot of implementation to get it to work.
One costs, but it's damn easy to use.
Personally, for mucking around improving skills I'd use the Linux/LDAP but as soon as you hit a corporate environment, Group Policy wins hands down for speed, integration and ease of use.
We need more people like you who go "Screw the rest, we'll code to standards and if it doesn't work then tough". The standards are there to be used as such, and if a browser doesn't play along with the standards then it's safe to be ignored.
Having a huge retractable VAB seems to make sense... but you'd need to move it a hell of a distance.
Ben and Jerry's doesn't do Bailey's ice cream :D
No TLD should specify the intended platform - the site serving the content should change what it serves based on the platform which is accessing it.
XML/XHTML/CSS etc is supposed to solve this, not allow for the creation of another TLD just for mobile content!
Surely the capitals indicate an abbreviation, so the lowercase s is fine?
Nah, at least China doesn't call it a "Freedom Firewall".
You're thinking of the proposed USA firewall, which will be called the "Freedom Firewall" and will be powered using "Patriotic Server Technology" operated by "Real American Men And Women" who live on "Freedom Fries" and whatever the hell that ketchup is called.
Yup. The blue will be kept for most serious but non-fatal errors. The red screen will be reserved for the almighty General Protection Fault.
Apparently the US still thinks that using GPS jammers will jam Galileo. Heh.
It's testing a crash situation, but what actually happens is a planned collision.
I'd say it conveys "collision". "Crash" implies an accident whereas "collision" just implies that something impacted something else, causing a change in momentum.
Expose on OS X does more than that. Hit F9 (iirc) and it tiles all your windows so you can see what's open, then click the one you want and it brings it to the forefront, but full sized again. Tapping F10 tiles all open applications of the same type as the currently selected one.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/ for more.
I want the representation of my Recycle Bin to show me how 'full' it is (as a function of the size of files in there against the total disk volume/free space/etc.
As in when it needs emptying, I want crap to become strewn across my desktop.
Expose... that's a good word. Put an accent on it and you'd have a product name.
Oh, wait. OS X managed that one, and damn effective it is as well.
I have been using a WinCE device for near 2 years now, with persistant net connections (occasionally raw) for most of the time.
I have never been infected with anything, nor have I heard of any.
Evidently I can't speak from experience with Palm, but I have also never heard of infections on them. I guess security-wise it's fairly level.
Simple, don't put it in a bedroom.
:)
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