This is the new wave of music and I am very soon going to order their $10 hard copy!
I did, even though it was actually $23 or $24 with shipping (to Sweden) and even though I never listen to the actual audio CDs (just rip from them).
I figured it'd be nice to have on the shelf anyways, and I felt like giving more than the $5. Don't know how much of the CD that is profit, but I hope there is some, at least.
Not even that great a NiN fan, though I like it well enough. But I felt this needed to be supported! I guess I would have had a real dilemma if had been Britney doing this move!:D
About the first point - assuming there is nothing wrong with how the presentation looks and works so it's a fair replacement in that area - Google Gears combined with exporting.
About the second point, you are absolutely correct - when it comes to that small small subset of people who actually use that functionality. I've seen it demonstrated but can't remember one single live occasion when someone has actually used it. Usually the presenter stands in the middle in front of the presentation and if he/she needs to sync the talk they just glance over their shoulder. Many even make a show of pointing to stuff on the big screen while they do the talk. Oh, I'm sure it is used, and you can cite multiple occasions, but I don't see that as a common case.
My vote also once would have gone to uTorrent, which I ran with Wine on Linux, but Deluge is even less bloated without missing any functionality. That it is a native app and GPL, are bonuses, too.
Wish I could provide a reference, but I read about a simulation that showed that a fully working eye could evolve in a pretty short span (well, still many many generations, only much faster than most would guess).
The theory goes something like this; that it may have been advantageous to detect light or maybe from which direction light comes, specifically sunlight, maybe for navigation - don't recall what the study said. From simply feeling heat on the skin, to a part of the skin being more specifically sensitive to light, to start detect variations in light, to starting to "see" contours, to a rudimentary eye, the steps were all quite logical, although I am now extrapolating from a vague memory...
It's all about if something provides an advantage for survival and therefore reproduction - if it does, and well enough, it may yield fantastic results, like the eye. Conversely, bad designs that doesn't really affect survival to any large degree may often be left untouched forever - a good example is our shared throats for breathing and eating/drinking, which is a pretty half-assed design, causing discomfort and problems, even death at rare times. It's just that it's so rare that it actually affects someones survival that there hasn't been an evolutionary need to get rid of it. Still might happen in the future.
Not that this actually proves anything, just shows that it's quite possible to find reasonable, logic explanations for incredibly awesome things like the eye as well as incredibly stupid designs like the shared throat.
But it's not so funny when the robber sets off the dye packet on a crowded bus with lots of innocent passengers (the internet). Oh wait, that is hilarious. Unless I'm on the bus, of course.
He was referring to Shut The Fuck Up And Dance, the new Monkey Boy distribution that is better equipped than any other to take over the DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS and ultimately win the war against Microsoft on MS' own terms by embracing and extending the Redmond tactics as their own.
Do the one possible thing that would effectively and instantly break Microsoft monopoly forever? Yes please! Oh why oh why aren't you in charge of MS...?
Well many or maybe most thought he was a few years back, but after just about every and all of his "paranoid" predictions has come through one way or the other, not so much anymore. Now there's just a few thinking he must be crazy because he has a beard.
Spot on on the observation that people who thinks opening more than a few tabs is wrong behaviour got to decide that tabs should not shrink below a certain treshold. It's the same kind of argument going on in Epiphany for that matter, 3-tab-max users try to teach other who do use more what is "right".
We all need to start tagging the stories with "fuddoesnotmeanwhatyouthink" because I only ever see it used as "I like/don't like issue X" now. It means Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, and is very specific as a tactic to spread scary misinformation folks. It's not meant as a label for anything, *anything* that you disagree with.
Totally agreed. About the same thing with Apples service, and just about all others like them:
Apple reserves the right not to post or publish any materials, and to delete, remove or edit any material, at any time in its sole discretion without notice or liability. [1]
Actually, I've had one camera not automagically work. Don't remember the brand, it was a borrowed camera that I was just going to get some images from... filed a bug at launchpad (Ubuntus bug tracker) and it was fixed, updated and released within 24 hours. Of course, this was a case of the code already existing and working, while the detection was failing (some bad assumptions in udev, I think). Still, that kind of support is hard to beat.:)
That's why you always use whitelists to validate data instead of blacklists. If users can enter URLs, make sure it starts with ^(http(?:s)?|ftp) or whatever you think is reasonable. If users can enter colors, maintain a list of allowed colors, or at the very, very least only allow [a-z]+ or #[\da-f]{6}. And so on. It's much easier starting out real strict and whitelisting more cases as they become needed, than it is to start plugging every possible hole one by one.
It doesn't matter what you or your parent poster believes about source making a difference: the creators of the project wants the computer to run open source only, and that was a well known fact by then. Whether that is a correct decision does not matter for this particular point.
Taking that sidetrack however, I can only see good things where people who will probably never be able to buy neither support nor software have the total freedom to change things on their systems freely. No, not everybody or even most will be able to do that, but everybody has the chance to learn that, and get a potentially valuable skill (and a lot of fun!) in the process.
The "least capable bundle" is indeed arguable and most definitely comes down to what the needs are. If your favorites are unsuitable, it's game over. With open source, not necessarily so.
I suggested that feature to the Epiphany developers, the result? They called it "crack". Of course, they call a lot of things "crack" if it isn't the absolute bare minimum needed to display a site... and they think that it's a lot better for users to have their tabs mystically disappear when opening more than 5-7, rather than rezising them. The only reason I've actually heard so far is that it is easier to close many tabs if they are same size. And so on...
Would be a great addition to Firefox though, I agree. My favourite would be CTRL-SHIFT-V as default key combo if it isn't taken.
So you are saying Linux doesn't have any trouble interacting with digital cameras in the same way that Windows interacts with digital cameras?
In all cases tried, yes (which is only 4 different cameras, so it's only anecdotal as all "evidence" on Slashdot). Actually, the experience has in case been better than on Windows, or so I've been led to believe: My co-worker handed over our job-camera, a HP PhotoSmart R717, but forgot to give me the CD. According to him, that was absolutely necessary to get it working in Windows - I wouldn't know, I just know he was completely stumped when I handed the camera back and told him I was finished. He was expecting me to come back for the CD.
As everything here, all anecdotal. But Ubuntu recognized it and popped up some wizard that wanted to help me with my photos. I don't handle cameras much, so I'm not sure even what it is called, I only know that it correctly identified camera and let me transfer all or selected images in a simple way withot it being treated as simple storage. And so it has been for all cameras tried, which, like I said are just a few.
YMMV. But my experience with most stuff these days is "just works", which is one hell of a relief compared to how it used to be just a few years back (OTOH, in those days I had more time and liked the tinkering, so...)
Hey asshole - yes you. I am a Linux user - exclusively so since several years in fact (first Gentoo then Ubuntu), and before that I've been using it in parallell for more years. Thanks to that, I am in a good position to help clarifying what it would mean to make the switch.
As I work with lots of graphics artists in my daily job, I know exactly what almost all of those would say if I told them before the switch that yes, they can run Photoshop... only to reveal later that I meant Photoshop 7. To these people - even those who actually does not need anything more - this is a big deal. So, better be up front about it than taking your fanboy road of name calling and insults when out of arguments.
Now, my way my stop someone from switching today. Your way will stop someone from switching forever.
Only up to Photoshop 7, currently. Not that the 7 is a bad app, but I know quite a lot of people who say they can't do without CS2. Even though most (not all) are wrong, CS2 is a huge leap from PS7.
And ext3 needs regular fscks or it gets corrupt. Most Linuxes forces a check every X starts or if it has been more than say a month. If you turn this off or if the computer runs for too long the system degrades more and more (I have a Debian server in this very situation right now). That's the fun paradox of never needing a reboot with Linux... apart from fixing the file system....
Usually it is fixable with (possible repeated) fsck, but the longer you wait, the bigger the chance of actual data loss.
I find these checks more annoying than any need to defrag.
Your emphasises are misguided or possibly misguiding: What DiBona says is that the Wine patches for Picasa does not help a port of Earth, because it's not the same parts that prevent it from running. Quite possibly, if it's QT and GL, Wine has nothing to do with getting it to run.
They paid a Linux-based company (CodeWeavers) to improve a free software product (Wine) for everyones benefit. What, exactly, is the problem with that?
Slashdot Mirror
I did, even though it was actually $23 or $24 with shipping (to Sweden) and even though I never listen to the actual audio CDs (just rip from them).
I figured it'd be nice to have on the shelf anyways, and I felt like giving more than the $5. Don't know how much of the CD that is profit, but I hope there is some, at least.
Not even that great a NiN fan, though I like it well enough. But I felt this needed to be supported! I guess I would have had a real dilemma if had been Britney doing this move!
About the first point - assuming there is nothing wrong with how the presentation looks and works so it's a fair replacement in that area - Google Gears combined with exporting.
About the second point, you are absolutely correct - when it comes to that small small subset of people who actually use that functionality. I've seen it demonstrated but can't remember one single live occasion when someone has actually used it. Usually the presenter stands in the middle in front of the presentation and if he/she needs to sync the talk they just glance over their shoulder. Many even make a show of pointing to stuff on the big screen while they do the talk. Oh, I'm sure it is used, and you can cite multiple occasions, but I don't see that as a common case.
My vote also once would have gone to uTorrent, which I ran with Wine on Linux, but Deluge is even less bloated without missing any functionality. That it is a native app and GPL, are bonuses, too.
Wish I could provide a reference, but I read about a simulation that showed that a fully working eye could evolve in a pretty short span (well, still many many generations, only much faster than most would guess).
The theory goes something like this; that it may have been advantageous to detect light or maybe from which direction light comes, specifically sunlight, maybe for navigation - don't recall what the study said. From simply feeling heat on the skin, to a part of the skin being more specifically sensitive to light, to start detect variations in light, to starting to "see" contours, to a rudimentary eye, the steps were all quite logical, although I am now extrapolating from a vague memory...
It's all about if something provides an advantage for survival and therefore reproduction - if it does, and well enough, it may yield fantastic results, like the eye. Conversely, bad designs that doesn't really affect survival to any large degree may often be left untouched forever - a good example is our shared throats for breathing and eating/drinking, which is a pretty half-assed design, causing discomfort and problems, even death at rare times. It's just that it's so rare that it actually affects someones survival that there hasn't been an evolutionary need to get rid of it. Still might happen in the future.
Not that this actually proves anything, just shows that it's quite possible to find reasonable, logic explanations for incredibly awesome things like the eye as well as incredibly stupid designs like the shared throat.
No, that's wrong, Cartman. But don't worry. There are no stupid answers, just stupid people.
But it's not so funny when the robber sets off the dye packet on a crowded bus with lots of innocent passengers (the internet). Oh wait, that is hilarious. Unless I'm on the bus, of course.
He was referring to Shut The Fuck Up And Dance, the new Monkey Boy distribution that is better equipped than any other to take over the DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS and ultimately win the war against Microsoft on MS' own terms by embracing and extending the Redmond tactics as their own.
Do the one possible thing that would effectively and instantly break Microsoft monopoly forever? Yes please! Oh why oh why aren't you in charge of MS...?
Well many or maybe most thought he was a few years back, but after just about every and all of his "paranoid" predictions has come through one way or the other, not so much anymore. Now there's just a few thinking he must be crazy because he has a beard.
Spot on on the observation that people who thinks opening more than a few tabs is wrong behaviour got to decide that tabs should not shrink below a certain treshold. It's the same kind of argument going on in Epiphany for that matter, 3-tab-max users try to teach other who do use more what is "right".
We all need to start tagging the stories with "fuddoesnotmeanwhatyouthink" because I only ever see it used as "I like/don't like issue X" now. It means Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, and is very specific as a tactic to spread scary misinformation folks. It's not meant as a label for anything, *anything* that you disagree with.
Totally agreed. About the same thing with Apples service, and just about all others like them:
[1]. http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/service.html
How anyone can accept that workarounds or no is beyond me. Paying money says "this is acceptable, please continue".
Actually, I've had one camera not automagically work. Don't remember the brand, it was a borrowed camera that I was just going to get some images from... filed a bug at launchpad (Ubuntus bug tracker) and it was fixed, updated and released within 24 hours. Of course, this was a case of the code already existing and working, while the detection was failing (some bad assumptions in udev, I think). Still, that kind of support is hard to beat. :)
ffmpeg -i infile.mov -vcodec copy -acodec copy outfile.ogg
Untested, but something like that should work. See the friendly man page for more info.
That's why you always use whitelists to validate data instead of blacklists. If users can enter URLs, make sure it starts with ^(http(?:s)?|ftp) or whatever you think is reasonable. If users can enter colors, maintain a list of allowed colors, or at the very, very least only allow [a-z]+ or #[\da-f]{6}. And so on. It's much easier starting out real strict and whitelisting more cases as they become needed, than it is to start plugging every possible hole one by one.
It doesn't matter what you or your parent poster believes about source making a difference: the creators of the project wants the computer to run open source only, and that was a well known fact by then. Whether that is a correct decision does not matter for this particular point.
Taking that sidetrack however, I can only see good things where people who will probably never be able to buy neither support nor software have the total freedom to change things on their systems freely. No, not everybody or even most will be able to do that, but everybody has the chance to learn that, and get a potentially valuable skill (and a lot of fun!) in the process.
The "least capable bundle" is indeed arguable and most definitely comes down to what the needs are. If your favorites are unsuitable, it's game over. With open source, not necessarily so.
Happily, your post was! :)
I suggested that feature to the Epiphany developers, the result? They called it "crack". Of course, they call a lot of things "crack" if it isn't the absolute bare minimum needed to display a site... and they think that it's a lot better for users to have their tabs mystically disappear when opening more than 5-7, rather than rezising them. The only reason I've actually heard so far is that it is easier to close many tabs if they are same size. And so on...
Would be a great addition to Firefox though, I agree. My favourite would be CTRL-SHIFT-V as default key combo if it isn't taken.
So you are saying Linux doesn't have any trouble interacting with digital cameras in the same way that Windows interacts with digital cameras?
In all cases tried, yes (which is only 4 different cameras, so it's only anecdotal as all "evidence" on Slashdot). Actually, the experience has in case been better than on Windows, or so I've been led to believe: My co-worker handed over our job-camera, a HP PhotoSmart R717, but forgot to give me the CD. According to him, that was absolutely necessary to get it working in Windows - I wouldn't know, I just know he was completely stumped when I handed the camera back and told him I was finished. He was expecting me to come back for the CD.
As everything here, all anecdotal. But Ubuntu recognized it and popped up some wizard that wanted to help me with my photos. I don't handle cameras much, so I'm not sure even what it is called, I only know that it correctly identified camera and let me transfer all or selected images in a simple way withot it being treated as simple storage. And so it has been for all cameras tried, which, like I said are just a few.
YMMV. But my experience with most stuff these days is "just works", which is one hell of a relief compared to how it used to be just a few years back (OTOH, in those days I had more time and liked the tinkering, so...)
Are bugs filed?
Hey asshole - yes you. I am a Linux user - exclusively so since several years in fact (first Gentoo then Ubuntu), and before that I've been using it in parallell for more years. Thanks to that, I am in a good position to help clarifying what it would mean to make the switch.
As I work with lots of graphics artists in my daily job, I know exactly what almost all of those would say if I told them before the switch that yes, they can run Photoshop... only to reveal later that I meant Photoshop 7. To these people - even those who actually does not need anything more - this is a big deal. So, better be up front about it than taking your fanboy road of name calling and insults when out of arguments.
Now, my way my stop someone from switching today. Your way will stop someone from switching forever.
Only up to Photoshop 7, currently. Not that the 7 is a bad app, but I know quite a lot of people who say they can't do without CS2. Even though most (not all) are wrong, CS2 is a huge leap from PS7.
Informative is a moderation that can be applied to posts deemed to contain useful information.
And ext3 needs regular fscks or it gets corrupt. Most Linuxes forces a check every X starts or if it has been more than say a month. If you turn this off or if the computer runs for too long the system degrades more and more (I have a Debian server in this very situation right now). That's the fun paradox of never needing a reboot with Linux... apart from fixing the file system....
Usually it is fixable with (possible repeated) fsck, but the longer you wait, the bigger the chance of actual data loss.
I find these checks more annoying than any need to defrag.
Open Source Patches: Wine.
Your emphasises are misguided or possibly misguiding: What DiBona says is that the Wine patches for Picasa does not help a port of Earth, because it's not the same parts that prevent it from running. Quite possibly, if it's QT and GL, Wine has nothing to do with getting it to run.
They paid a Linux-based company (CodeWeavers) to improve a free software product (Wine) for everyones benefit. What, exactly, is the problem with that?