UIs are going to bloat. Period. People expect more and more featurs, and better and better usability from their software. It is called evolution. And most of the usability evolution ahppens at the UI side, so yes, it is going to bloat.
But KDE and Gnome are not Linux. One of the best facets of Linux is that the GUI is a totally distict entity than the kernel. So if you, who is performance-centric and does not care about features, you can run Blackbox, or even Gnome 1.2 or KDE 2.2 from a few years aback and it will work just fine under the latest Kernel.
But for me, and others who like lots of GUI magic and have fast boxes, we can pick the feature-rich UI others called "bloated". It is all about coice, and choice is a good thing.
There are also IE-specific DirectShow filters for opacity (and have been since IE 5). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/filter/f ilters.asp for details. Since both the IE and Mozilla opacity settings are non-overlapping CSS, you can use both together to get an opacity setting that works in both IE and Mozilla. I have used this with success in Windows XP.
Now Opera and Konqueror just need to support it too.
If you are like me ( and others) who absolutely hate the "download manager", and how there is no way to turn this damn thing off in Firefox, please vote for Bug 233122 (note I think bugzilla will block URLs from slashdot).
For me, the download manager is simply unusable. I *need* to have my downloads in the taskbar, in seprate windows. I do *not* want them all grouped in a hodgepodge window.
You realize there are more than two parties you know.
I am pissed off at the Liberals too, but I am defiantly not going to help voting in a homo-phobic, anti-abortion right-wing wacko. I am voting NDP. And I would strongly urge any Canadian who values civil rights to do the same.
If you write Santa at this address, he will write back. Not 100% sure USPS will send it over the border, but if they do, it'll work.
( Canada Post sends out replies to children each year; I think employees at the post office volunteer and take the time to hand-craft a personal reply to each and every letter, though they may be auto-generated nowadays, i am not certain ).
It would not suprise me in the lest to find out that the NSA always maintains a supercomputer al least 2x as fast as the fastest "publically" listed supercomputer.
1. With Linux entering mainstream, hardly anyone uses the command line for things like file management anymore. They use file managers like Konqueror and Nautilus.
2. Even if you're afraid of X Windows, have you ever heard of tab completion?
Blasphemy my ass. i have been using Linux, BSD, nd other UNIX derivatives for over 10 years now, and all I can say is THANK GOD.
The/usr/bin,/etc,/usr/local concept is totally outdated. Having apps in their own directories eases maitenence, eases administration, and eases uninstallation. Think about it, if apps were in their own self contained directories, who even *needs* a package manger? To install, you extract the tar, to uninstall, delete the directory. Boom snap, done and done.
Other than core system configuration and core libraries the whole system uses, I ideally think *any app should be totally confined to one directory level. IMO this is one thing Windows does right.
What is most ironic about this is that the people pirating XP are tech savy enough to know how to locate these restrictions in a hex editor and distribute their own service pack with them disabled. So in the end, the only ones losing out here are the people who bought a computer form someone and pirated XP unknowingly.
Both of the examples that you stated involve would require a contract to be valid, and since you are never signed a contract then those claims are not enforceable.
You could say the exact same about the email disclaimer.
However, they do have copyright on the documents that they send you so stating that you have no right to redistribute the document is an enforcable claim.
This is true. It is also true that I have copyright on my bulliten board notice, and saying you have no right to distribute it is encforceable.
However, an email disclaimer saying you have no right to read the email you already read before you read the disclaimer is total hogwash. This is the exact same as the bulliten board notice saying that if you read it you owe me money.
A shrink-wrapped EULA has exactly that. When you go to install the software, it presents an EULA. If you don't accept the EULA you cannot use the software.
It's the exact same as what I said. Carrying the analogy to this email, it would be like going through the whole installation procedure, allowing you to run the app, then only after *exiting* the app for the first time presenting the EULA.. which would mean that if you don't accepted you have *already* violated it. It's retarded.
Putting a disclaimer at the bottom of a message is utterly ridiculous. It is like posting a biuig notice on the side of a building, then at the bottom adding "This message is (c) Foobar, anyone reading it agress to pay me 5 million dollars". You have to stipulate terms of a license *before* the licensed product, not after.
To realy get them, why not add the following reply to your SMTP HELO response on your mailserver: "Any email sent to this system is considered the personal property of Foobar, and all rights and copyrights associated with said email are automatically assigned to Foobar. Your use of this system constitutes acceptance of this agreement."
It would be just as ridiculous as the email signatures.
I honestly don't know why Americans complain so much about their fuel prices.
I have heard all this 'prices are over 2.00 a gallon". Whoop-dee-do. Here in Canada, my gas is 1.00 / litre now. That is over $4.00 USD / US gallon. At current exchange rates, that's over $2.90 / US gallon.
In London, from what I can find, it's currently around 0.90 / litre, which equates to over $6.50 USD / US gallon.
What's my point? That Americans pay by far one of the lowest retail prices in the world for gas, yet they still complain.
I don't understand what Dawes' problem is. Why would he change the license such that a) no distros want to use the software, and b) no one wants to develop the software? It seems to me like he signed his own death warrant.
Why didn't he just back down? It is totally boggling to me, since it is quite obvious that within a year the XFree86.org X server will now not only not be in use by anyone, but also be totally obsolete.
Funny, last time I checked the iPod didn't have a think black stipe wrapped around the middle. It also didn't have a perfectly flat top either, and it had numerous buttons.
Why is it nowadays whenever anything is "white" and have curned edges it is "styled after the iPod"? Things were white before too.
Does the fact that my digital camera is grey with curved corners make it "styled after a 50's toaster"?
They will be working "on" Linux ( that is, they will be running it on their desktop ), but they will not be working "on" Linux ( writing code for the OS ). Oracle developers will be working on Oracle software.
The guy is not drunk, he is a loser doing parking lot doughnuts in the winter, but still...
That intro is seriously whack.
If you're an American and thinking "what's the big deal", imagine a similar intro on napster.com where they had a bunch of drunk KKK members dancing around a fire, a bald eagle attacking school children, and a prostitute using the American Flag as toilet paper, all while palying a song "I am proud to be an American", and you'd see where we're coming from...
Beside each song listing there are a few small icons. These icons indicate how you can use the song file once it is downloaded.
To get more information on usage restrictions for each track, click on the associated icon. A window will appear with information on exactly how you are permitted to use the file once it is downloaded.
Listen:
You can listen to your music downloads as many times as you like from the computer that holds the purchased license.
Burn:
You can burn your music downloads to CD 3 times.
Burn:
You can burn your music downloads an unlimited number of times.
Transfer:
You can transfer your music downloads an unlimited number of times to 3 separate portable devices
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So... it would seem you're totally wrong. Sure, not all files can be burt, but a) Those files are clearly labeled on the site before you pay, b) It does not cost money to burn such files ( WMP does not even support this, have no clue where you came up with this nonsense ), and c) You can't "uprgade" a non-burn allowed file by paying extra money.
Basically, you're saying that next genration programming languages will all be Java with RMI and Jini.
Decent remoting is already built into many development frameworks, including Java and.Net. This is nothing new, it's been around for years. I suggest you look into it ( especially if you're using *ugh* PHP for anything; been there done that too, trust me, ditch it while you still have time to go with another framework ).
How much is a ticket to the movies? 10 dollars, and it'll get you an hour of entertainment.
How much is an hour's use of a table at a decent pool hall? 10 dollars.
How much money is it to play at the arcade for an hour? Likely much more than 10 dollars.
For a 10 dollar buy in, I can play poker with a group of friends for 4-5 hours. *PLUS* there is the slim chance you may not even lose that money, or come out ahead.
For anyone except a total introvert, a good game of poker is pretty much top entertainment value for your dollar nowadays. You *do* get out of the house once every few days, right?
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UIs are going to bloat. Period. People expect more and more featurs, and better and better usability from their software. It is called evolution. And most of the usability evolution ahppens at the UI side, so yes, it is going to bloat.
But KDE and Gnome are not Linux. One of the best facets of Linux is that the GUI is a totally distict entity than the kernel. So if you, who is performance-centric and does not care about features, you can run Blackbox, or even Gnome 1.2 or KDE 2.2 from a few years aback and it will work just fine under the latest Kernel.
But for me, and others who like lots of GUI magic and have fast boxes, we can pick the feature-rich UI others called "bloated". It is all about coice, and choice is a good thing.
Now Opera and Konqueror just need to support it too.
If you are like me ( and others) who absolutely hate the "download manager", and how there is no way to turn this damn thing off in Firefox, please vote for Bug 233122 (note I think bugzilla will block URLs from slashdot).
For me, the download manager is simply unusable. I *need* to have my downloads in the taskbar, in seprate windows. I do *not* want them all grouped in a hodgepodge window.
IDEs have been using TODO integration for years.
//TODO: in their comments and parsing them with shell scripts for decades.
And people have been using
Meh, I love the whole address. I think the very fact that our postal code format allows you to write H0H 0H0 as the postal code is cute :)
You realize there are more than two parties you know.
I am pissed off at the Liberals too, but I am defiantly not going to help voting in a homo-phobic, anti-abortion right-wing wacko. I am voting NDP. And I would strongly urge any Canadian who values civil rights to do the same.
Santa Claus
North Pole, Canada
H0H 0H0
If you write Santa at this address, he will write back. Not 100% sure USPS will send it over the border, but if they do, it'll work.
( Canada Post sends out replies to children each year; I think employees at the post office volunteer and take the time to hand-craft a personal reply to each and every letter, though they may be auto-generated nowadays, i am not certain ).
I would challenge you on that.
And I would win.
It would not suprise me in the lest to find out that the NSA always maintains a supercomputer al least 2x as fast as the fastest "publically" listed supercomputer.
Now try doing that with say, Nautilus
:P
Ooops! It's directories and files are scattered throughout the filesystem
Restricting programs to build into their own trees is an awesome idea IMO.
1. With Linux entering mainstream, hardly anyone uses the command line for things like file management anymore. They use file managers like Konqueror and Nautilus.
2. Even if you're afraid of X Windows, have you ever heard of tab completion?
Blasphemy my ass. i have been using Linux, BSD, nd other UNIX derivatives for over 10 years now, and all I can say is THANK GOD.
/usr/bin, /etc, /usr/local concept is totally outdated. Having apps in their own directories eases maitenence, eases administration, and eases uninstallation. Think about it, if apps were in their own self contained directories, who even *needs* a package manger? To install, you extract the tar, to uninstall, delete the directory. Boom snap, done and done.
The
Other than core system configuration and core libraries the whole system uses, I ideally think *any app should be totally confined to one directory level. IMO this is one thing Windows does right.
What is most ironic about this is that the people pirating XP are tech savy enough to know how to locate these restrictions in a hex editor and distribute their own service pack with them disabled. So in the end, the only ones losing out here are the people who bought a computer form someone and pirated XP unknowingly.
You could say the exact same about the email disclaimer.
However, they do have copyright on the documents that they send you so stating that you have no right to redistribute the document is an enforcable claim.
This is true. It is also true that I have copyright on my bulliten board notice, and saying you have no right to distribute it is encforceable.
However, an email disclaimer saying you have no right to read the email you already read before you read the disclaimer is total hogwash. This is the exact same as the bulliten board notice saying that if you read it you owe me money.
A shrink-wrapped EULA has exactly that. When you go to install the software, it presents an EULA. If you don't accept the EULA you cannot use the software.
It's the exact same as what I said. Carrying the analogy to this email, it would be like going through the whole installation procedure, allowing you to run the app, then only after *exiting* the app for the first time presenting the EULA.. which would mean that if you don't accepted you have *already* violated it. It's retarded.
Putting a disclaimer at the bottom of a message is utterly ridiculous. It is like posting a biuig notice on the side of a building, then at the bottom adding "This message is (c) Foobar, anyone reading it agress to pay me 5 million dollars". You have to stipulate terms of a license *before* the licensed product, not after.
To realy get them, why not add the following reply to your SMTP HELO response on your mailserver: "Any email sent to this system is considered the personal property of Foobar, and all rights and copyrights associated with said email are automatically assigned to Foobar. Your use of this system constitutes acceptance of this agreement."
It would be just as ridiculous as the email signatures.
I honestly don't know why Americans complain so much about their fuel prices.
I have heard all this 'prices are over 2.00 a gallon". Whoop-dee-do. Here in Canada, my gas is 1.00 / litre now. That is over $4.00 USD / US gallon. At current exchange rates, that's over $2.90 / US gallon.
In London, from what I can find, it's currently around 0.90 / litre, which equates to over $6.50 USD / US gallon.
What's my point? That Americans pay by far one of the lowest retail prices in the world for gas, yet they still complain.
I don't understand what Dawes' problem is. Why would he change the license such that a) no distros want to use the software, and b) no one wants to develop the software? It seems to me like he signed his own death warrant.
Why didn't he just back down? It is totally boggling to me, since it is quite obvious that within a year the XFree86.org X server will now not only not be in use by anyone, but also be totally obsolete.
"Hey boss, mind if I reboot the RS/6000? I am *dying* to try out this new KDE 3.2!!!
Funny, last time I checked the iPod didn't have a think black stipe wrapped around the middle. It also didn't have a perfectly flat top either, and it had numerous buttons.
Why is it nowadays whenever anything is "white" and have curned edges it is "styled after the iPod"? Things were white before too.
Does the fact that my digital camera is grey with curved corners make it "styled after a 50's toaster"?
They will be working "on" Linux ( that is, they will be running it on their desktop ), but they will not be working "on" Linux ( writing code for the OS ). Oracle developers will be working on Oracle software.
The guy is not drunk, he is a loser doing parking lot doughnuts in the winter, but still...
That intro is seriously whack.
If you're an American and thinking "what's the big deal", imagine a similar intro on napster.com where they had a bunch of drunk KKK members dancing around a fire, a bald eagle attacking school children, and a prostitute using the American Flag as toilet paper, all while palying a song "I am proud to be an American", and you'd see where we're coming from...
Beside each song listing there are a few small icons. These icons indicate how you can use the song file once it is downloaded.
To get more information on usage restrictions for each track, click on the associated icon. A window will appear with information on exactly how you are permitted to use the file once it is downloaded.
Listen:
You can listen to your music downloads as many times as you like from the computer that holds the purchased license.
Burn:
You can burn your music downloads to CD 3 times.
Burn:
You can burn your music downloads an unlimited number of times.
Transfer:
You can transfer your music downloads an unlimited number of times to 3 separate portable devices
---
So... it would seem you're totally wrong. Sure, not all files can be burt, but a) Those files are clearly labeled on the site before you pay, b) It does not cost money to burn such files ( WMP does not even support this, have no clue where you came up with this nonsense ), and c) You can't "uprgade" a non-burn allowed file by paying extra money.
Basically, you're saying that next genration programming languages will all be Java with RMI and Jini.
.Net. This is nothing new, it's been around for years. I suggest you look into it ( especially if you're using *ugh* PHP for anything; been there done that too, trust me, ditch it while you still have time to go with another framework ).
Decent remoting is already built into many development frameworks, including Java and
How much is a ticket to the movies? 10 dollars, and it'll get you an hour of entertainment.
How much is an hour's use of a table at a decent pool hall? 10 dollars.
How much money is it to play at the arcade for an hour? Likely much more than 10 dollars.
For a 10 dollar buy in, I can play poker with a group of friends for 4-5 hours. *PLUS* there is the slim chance you may not even lose that money, or come out ahead.
For anyone except a total introvert, a good game of poker is pretty much top entertainment value for your dollar nowadays. You *do* get out of the house once every few days, right?