I'll do my usual of installing the new version to see if the KDE developers have finally come to their senses. To be honest, I don't hold high hopes, as I have seen comments from the developers in the past indicating they were opposed to implementing this simple concept because it made it difficult for them when implementing the [comparatively] little-used feature of going to sleep on one device and waking up on another device. I have trouble imagining the need for that capability, and I have even more trouble seeing why that would be justification to not implement the "remember windows size/position on closure" feature.
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So I really hope the KDE developers have come to their senses on this.
Does it remember size and location of windows?
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So far, all of the previous versions of KDE that I have used do not remember the size and location of windows when I change those attributes by moving and resizing the window.
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I've looked but have not been able to find a global parameter (i.e. affecting all windows) that says, in effect, ~remember window size and location when the window is closed~.
I've all but stopped buying at Amazon. Yeah, the free shipping for orders over $35 is nice, but at what cost?
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Amazon sits on those orders for nearly a week before they are shipped.
The "shipping cost" is built in to the price of each item. So if you buy more than one item, you are over-paying for shipping.
I recently purchase a WiFi Access Point from provantage.com. At that site shipping is extra. However, the cost of the item plus the cost of shipping was still less expensive than Amazon's price with "free shipping". Plus ProVantage shipped the item the same day as I ordered it. Since I am in UPS's next day delivery zone for ground shipments, I got the access point the next day, instead of waiting the 10 days as Amazon drags its feet.
For me, it's life after Amazon, and it's a happy life.
They recently said they would be deploying 2Gbit, and that has failed to materialize.
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Comcast is trying to look like a leading-edge ISP with these press releases about vapor-speeds, speeds that never seem to materialize.
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If you want to see the real Comcast, look at areas where Comcast has little or no competition. US$50 per month for speeds that are DSL-like (about 6mbit/sec).
I've worked for companies where such decisions were made with the considerable input from what the summary called "hands on keyboard" technical people.
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I've also worked for companies where such decisions were made by solely by the CIO. The CIO in one of the cases was not a technical person, and got the CIO position because of whom he knew.
The success of the project seemed to be directly related to the amount of discussion and information exchange among the "hands on" technicians and management (including business management).
The more discussion and information exchange, the better the outcome of the project.
I doubt if Flash will ever go away completely. However, youtube moving away from Flash was a HUGE push to making Flash go away.
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At some point, however, the number who bother to load Flash into their browsers will be a small percentage of web users. That means if you have content that requires Flash, you've just reduced your audience very significantly.
What I find very curious are the web sites whose home pages are fully and completely written in Flash. If you do not enable flash, you see nothing but a blank page.
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The owners of those websites were probably sold a bill of goods for a "cool website" by the same designers who proffered flaming logos 20 years ago....
If I sign a petition, I don't expect to have to give my demographic information, or whom I work for, etc.
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The petition is not law. The petition merely draws more appropriate attention to a matter. Whether anything is done about that matter is up to the governing processes.
Something does not have to be done just because there is a petition in favor of it. Just as something does not have to be done just because you write a letter to your representative in Congress.
Highway to hack: why we’re just at the beginning of the auto-hacking era
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Imagine it’s 1995, and you’re about to put your company’s office on the Internet. Your security has been solid in the past—you’ve banned people from bringing floppies to work with games, you’ve installed virus scanners, and you run file server backups every night. So, you set up the Internet router and give everyone TCP/IP addresses. It’s not like you’re NASA or the Pentagon or something, so what could go wrong?
That, in essence, is the security posture of many modern automobiles—a network of sensors and controllers that have been tuned to perform flawlessly under normal use, with little more than a firewall (or in some cases, not even that) protecting it from attack once connected to the big, bad Internet world. This month at three separate security conferences, five sets of researchers presented proof-of-concept attacks on vehicles from multiple manufacturers plus an add-on device that spies on drivers for insurance companies, taking advantage of always-on cellular connectivity and other wireless vehicle communications to defeat security measures, gain access to vehicles, and—in three cases—gain access to the car’s internal network in a way that could take remote control of the vehicle in frightening ways....
...M]anufacturers often view bugs that aren't publicly understood as unimportant, because it costs something to patch those bugs, and nothing to ignore them...
If it costs nothing to ignore security bugs that can cause car crashes and human injury, then clearly the cost of ignoring such bugs is far too low.
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The question becomes, how can security bugs be made expensive to ignore and cheap to fix?
... and use the model railroading to expand upon that.
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For example, if you like hiking in the mountains, then set up the trains in a mountainous terrain, with tunnels through the mountains and bridges across the valleys.
...There's a three-page article explaining this,...
Not really. That three page article does not explain the benefit to POSIX if the merger would occur.
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For example, what is the approval process for changes to Object Store? What is the approval process for changes to POSIX? What will the resulting approval process look like after the two are merged? How will POSIX benefit from the new approval process?
There is nothing in the article that addresses that topic. And that is but one of many unaddressed topics.
The article is typical technical magazine article. Lots of interesting technical stuff, but nothing about process.
There, I fixed your question for you.
Not really. All you did was show that you've not a clue about what POSIX is and how new features are added to POSIX.
fwiw, I'm not saying that POSIX wouldn't benefit from having something like Object Store added to it, I'm just saying that the process to do such a thing needs to be understood and followed. You might want to start by researching how to make an addition to the POSIX standard. Here's a link to that starting place:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onli...
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Aside from trying to leverage the huge portability of POSIX by using its name, what exactly is the benefit if the merger would occur?
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Why not standardize and implement Object Store across many different operating systems (working code would be required for each OS), and then submit Object Store to be a part of the POSIX standard?
Airlines do this all the time. They charge more for last minute purchases...,
Because if they didn't, too many would wait until the last minute to buy their tickets. That would create a logistical nightmare for the airlines who have to schedule planes days to weeks in advance.
They are going to follow up on this with Xerox. If it is correct, Xerox will be removed from our vendor list.
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When companies are so blatant about wanting to overcharge their customers, it makes it real easy to identify them and remove the bad companies from our approved vendor list.
Some Czech guy did a traffic analysis of data produced by Windows 10, and released his findings the other day. His primary thesis was that Windows 10 acts more like a terminal than an operating system -- because of the extent of the "cloud" integration, a large portion of the OS functions are almost dependent on remote (Microsoft's) servers. The amount of collected information, even with strict privacy settings, is quite alarming.... All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:...
...People seem to just like being negative about Firefox....
Not really. Mozilla has earned all the grief it receives for what it has done to Firefox.
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Firefox has been losing marketshare as a result of what Mozilla has been doing to Firefox. Mozilla needs to take its head out of its collective arse and realize that people complain about Firefox because they like the way Firefox was, i.e., not bloated but functional, sleek and a driver of standards.
Nowadays, Firefox's marketshare is getting dangerously close to the point where it no longer can be a driver of web standards.
Your message paints Firefox as the victim of mean people who just hate it. Until Mozilla realizes and acknowledges what is really going on, i.e., people who liked Firefox want to see it return to its former glory, Firefox will continue to move towards the has-been of browsers.
Mozilla has been viewing Firefox like a kitchen sink, dumping everything into it.
The backlash has caused Mozilla to take a step back and re-evaluate things. But is it too little too late?
To me it looks as if Mozilla is in circle the wagons mode, being super defensive across the board. Constructively critical reviews about add-ons are being removed, apparently to keep the ratings in the 4 to 5 range for add-ons. Messages documenting problems are being removed in the support forums. (I saw one message that described a problem similar to the one I was having. When I went back to re-read it a day later, it had been removed.)
It looks like Mozilla has made its transition to a bloated corporation complete. They now appear to be in the "control the message" mode of operation.
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If you need to have software that constantly looks over employees' shoulders and cheers them on, then you need to treat the root cause of your employees' dissatisfaction with the workplace. The software will only dump salt into a festering wound.
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I think so? I feel pretty confident about it
I'll do my usual of installing the new version to see if the KDE developers have finally come to their senses. To be honest, I don't hold high hopes, as I have seen comments from the developers in the past indicating they were opposed to implementing this simple concept because it made it difficult for them when implementing the [comparatively] little-used feature of going to sleep on one device and waking up on another device. I have trouble imagining the need for that capability, and I have even more trouble seeing why that would be justification to not implement the "remember windows size/position on closure" feature.
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So I really hope the KDE developers have come to their senses on this.
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I've looked but have not been able to find a global parameter (i.e. affecting all windows) that says, in effect, ~remember window size and location when the window is closed~.
Has such a parameter finally been added to KDE?
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Amazon sits on those orders for nearly a week before they are shipped.
The "shipping cost" is built in to the price of each item. So if you buy more than one item, you are over-paying for shipping.
I recently purchase a WiFi Access Point from provantage.com. At that site shipping is extra. However, the cost of the item plus the cost of shipping was still less expensive than Amazon's price with "free shipping". Plus ProVantage shipped the item the same day as I ordered it. Since I am in UPS's next day delivery zone for ground shipments, I got the access point the next day, instead of waiting the 10 days as Amazon drags its feet.
For me, it's life after Amazon, and it's a happy life.
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Comcast is trying to look like a leading-edge ISP with these press releases about vapor-speeds, speeds that never seem to materialize.
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If you want to see the real Comcast, look at areas where Comcast has little or no competition. US$50 per month for speeds that are DSL-like (about 6mbit/sec).
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I've also worked for companies where such decisions were made by solely by the CIO. The CIO in one of the cases was not a technical person, and got the CIO position because of whom he knew.
The success of the project seemed to be directly related to the amount of discussion and information exchange among the "hands on" technicians and management (including business management).
The more discussion and information exchange, the better the outcome of the project.
.
At some point, however, the number who bother to load Flash into their browsers will be a small percentage of web users. That means if you have content that requires Flash, you've just reduced your audience very significantly.
.
The owners of those websites were probably sold a bill of goods for a "cool website" by the same designers who proffered flaming logos 20 years ago....
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The petition is not law. The petition merely draws more appropriate attention to a matter. Whether anything is done about that matter is up to the governing processes.
Something does not have to be done just because there is a petition in favor of it. Just as something does not have to be done just because you write a letter to your representative in Congress.
Highway to hack: why we’re just at the beginning of the auto-hacking era
.
Imagine it’s 1995, and you’re about to put your company’s office on the Internet. Your security has been solid in the past—you’ve banned people from bringing floppies to work with games, you’ve installed virus scanners, and you run file server backups every night. So, you set up the Internet router and give everyone TCP/IP addresses. It’s not like you’re NASA or the Pentagon or something, so what could go wrong?
That, in essence, is the security posture of many modern automobiles—a network of sensors and controllers that have been tuned to perform flawlessly under normal use, with little more than a firewall (or in some cases, not even that) protecting it from attack once connected to the big, bad Internet world. This month at three separate security conferences, five sets of researchers presented proof-of-concept attacks on vehicles from multiple manufacturers plus an add-on device that spies on drivers for insurance companies, taking advantage of always-on cellular connectivity and other wireless vehicle communications to defeat security measures, gain access to vehicles, and—in three cases—gain access to the car’s internal network in a way that could take remote control of the vehicle in frightening ways....
...M]anufacturers often view bugs that aren't publicly understood as unimportant, because it costs something to patch those bugs, and nothing to ignore them...
If it costs nothing to ignore security bugs that can cause car crashes and human injury, then clearly the cost of ignoring such bugs is far too low.
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The question becomes, how can security bugs be made expensive to ignore and cheap to fix?
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For example, if you like hiking in the mountains, then set up the trains in a mountainous terrain, with tunnels through the mountains and bridges across the valleys.
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Or are the Chrome extensions also buggy?
...There's a three-page article explaining this, ...
Not really. That three page article does not explain the benefit to POSIX if the merger would occur.
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For example, what is the approval process for changes to Object Store? What is the approval process for changes to POSIX? What will the resulting approval process look like after the two are merged? How will POSIX benefit from the new approval process?
There is nothing in the article that addresses that topic. And that is but one of many unaddressed topics.
The article is typical technical magazine article. Lots of interesting technical stuff, but nothing about process.
There, I fixed your question for you.
Not really. All you did was show that you've not a clue about what POSIX is and how new features are added to POSIX.
fwiw, I'm not saying that POSIX wouldn't benefit from having something like Object Store added to it, I'm just saying that the process to do such a thing needs to be understood and followed. You might want to start by researching how to make an addition to the POSIX standard. Here's a link to that starting place: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onli...
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Aside from trying to leverage the huge portability of POSIX by using its name, what exactly is the benefit if the merger would occur?
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Why not standardize and implement Object Store across many different operating systems (working code would be required for each OS), and then submit Object Store to be a part of the POSIX standard?
So I use my right hand to press the "6" key (and any other number key, for that matter).
... It says "arms."...
It also says "regulated".
... but don't event think of trying to take my laser weapon system away from me.
...City councilman Johnny Khamis dismissed such criticism: "This is a public street. You're not expecting privacy on a public street."...
The party of freedom from government is turning into the Big Brother party.
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And from a Republican who was not even born in the US.
Maybe that's how privacy is viewed in Lebanon where he was born....
Airlines do this all the time. They charge more for last minute purchases...,
Because if they didn't, too many would wait until the last minute to buy their tickets. That would create a logistical nightmare for the airlines who have to schedule planes days to weeks in advance.
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When companies are so blatant about wanting to overcharge their customers, it makes it real easy to identify them and remove the bad companies from our approved vendor list.
Some Czech guy did a traffic analysis of data produced by Windows 10, and released his findings the other day. His primary thesis was that Windows 10 acts more like a terminal than an operating system -- because of the extent of the "cloud" integration, a large portion of the OS functions are almost dependent on remote (Microsoft's) servers. The amount of collected information, even with strict privacy settings, is quite alarming. ... All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:...
...People seem to just like being negative about Firefox....
Not really. Mozilla has earned all the grief it receives for what it has done to Firefox.
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Firefox has been losing marketshare as a result of what Mozilla has been doing to Firefox. Mozilla needs to take its head out of its collective arse and realize that people complain about Firefox because they like the way Firefox was, i.e., not bloated but functional, sleek and a driver of standards.
Nowadays, Firefox's marketshare is getting dangerously close to the point where it no longer can be a driver of web standards.
Your message paints Firefox as the victim of mean people who just hate it. Until Mozilla realizes and acknowledges what is really going on, i.e., people who liked Firefox want to see it return to its former glory, Firefox will continue to move towards the has-been of browsers.
The backlash has caused Mozilla to take a step back and re-evaluate things. But is it too little too late?
To me it looks as if Mozilla is in circle the wagons mode, being super defensive across the board. Constructively critical reviews about add-ons are being removed, apparently to keep the ratings in the 4 to 5 range for add-ons. Messages documenting problems are being removed in the support forums. (I saw one message that described a problem similar to the one I was having. When I went back to re-read it a day later, it had been removed.)
It looks like Mozilla has made its transition to a bloated corporation complete. They now appear to be in the "control the message" mode of operation.
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If you need to have software that constantly looks over employees' shoulders and cheers them on, then you need to treat the root cause of your employees' dissatisfaction with the workplace. The software will only dump salt into a festering wound.
...He just happens to be on the right side of this.
Sometimes he gets lucky and the words coming out of his mouth make sense.