I love having thousands of options covering the smallest of details. I only ever change a small percentage of them, but I really really want to have those options, and other people are going to want different options. If I have to choose between "only a few options, and not many of the ones I want" or "tons of options, including the ones I want", I'd definitely choose the tons of options.
That should be: "The only thing that really bugs me about Plasma is that I don't know why it's being done."
Why is it that Digg allows users to edit their comments for a few seconds, while Slashdot doesn't, when Slashdot is more oriented towards computer geeks and programmers?
The only thing that really bugs me about Plasma is that I don't know it's being done. I've never seen a rationale section or anything about why it's being created. When you initiate a massive project like this, you need to be clear about why you're doing it. I can't really see any reason for it; it just seems like a massive waste of time reinventing the wheel.
I'm sure there's some mailing list archive or something where the reason for implementing this huge change is fully explained, but for the average person it's not easy to find.
But I appreciate your work and I look forward to KDE4.
WPF, WCF, DirectX 10, and WF are all very useful for developers Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) are part of the.NET Framework 3.0, which is available for Windows XP. No matter how nice they are, they're not going to convince anyone to move to Vista.
The problem is that there isn't enough competition. If somebody could figure out how to get some competition going, we wouldn't have to deal with this. But how the hell are we supposed to encourage competition in this area? Monopolies form easily in the telecommunications industry and are difficult to bust.
If we really want to fix this industry in the long run, we're going to have to fundamentally rethink something.
That's why there is currently no scientific theory on the origin of life that is accepted as fact. (Although there are several aspects that can be tested and proven, just not enough to show a whole picture.)
However, the creationists aren't asking for schools to say, "We don't know how this happened." They're asking for schools to say, "There's no way this could have happened by chance. It must have been God." That's a big difference.
This is the God of the gaps argument, an argument of ignorance. "We don't know how it happened, so it must have been God." It's been wrong hundreds upon hundreds of times before, yet religious people continue to claim certain things can't happen on their own and must be caused by gods.
When will you people learn? Not knowing how something happens doesn't mean it can't happen on its own! It doesn't mean there must be gods doing it!
RMS might be a bit of a crazy idealist, but he's done a lot of good for the world, and he should be appreciated for what he's done. He really really cares a lot about digital freedom. If RMS says something is okay, (e.g. selling GPLed software) then I feel confident that it probably really is okay. RMS wouldn't ever approve of something that goes against libre software. His unwillingness to compromise may be frustrating sometimes, but he's definitely a guy you can trust.
I guess that rules out the theory of Universal Common Descent then, huh? Why would it do that?
So tell me, how do you explain the origin of life to school children using testable hypotheses? Can't huh? Thought not! Are you seriously implying that if children can't understand something, it must not be true? Seriously? I thought you religious people liked to pretend that you didn't think that way. "I don't believe it because it's simple and I'm lazy, I believe it because it's the truth." Isn't that generally what you people claim?
What really gets me is the complete disregard for backwards compatibility. Web developers and the HTML 5 spec puts a lot of importance on new additions being able to fall back gracefully in browsers that don't recognize them.
For example, in the very first idea of adding a version attribute (which I'm totally for), he proudly states "No more doctypes." Except that means every browser that doesn't recognize the version attribute will go into quirks mode. Your new HTML5 webpage now looks like shit in all browsers that don't recognize the version attribute, even if all you did was remove the doctype and add the version attribute.
It's like he doesn't realize that web developers will want their stuff to continue working in older browsers.
Some people are suing Microsoft because the "Vista capable" labels are misleading. They're saying "Vista capable" implies a computer meets the minimum requirements to run any version of Vista, while the actual meaning is that it meets the minimum requirements for just the Home Basic version.
Their claim got a boost when Microsoft's marketing director showed that he also thought "Vista capable" meant that a computer meets the minimum requirements to run any version of Vista.
most research indicates it's higher than 10% and probably close to 20% I'm gay and this sounds like bullshit. Studies on the prevalence of homosexuality range all over the place, but I've never heard of any serious studies claiming anywhere near 1 in 5 people were gay. Usually the people I hear these greatly exaggerated claims from are gay people who think being different is bad.
From Wikipedia:
In general, surveys quoted by anti-gay activists tend to show figures nearer 1%, while surveys quoted by gay activists tend to show figures nearer 10%, with a mean of 4-5% figure most often cited in mainstream media reports.
Microsoft is way too big for me to have a single opinion about all of it. Same with Sony and other large companies/organizations. Some parts of them may be horribly evil, but that doesn't mean there isn't significant goodness in there as well.
The actual amount of memory used is very low. The problem is fragmentation. If Mozilla would actually tackle the real problem instead of focusing on what know-nothing users continuously claim is the problem, it would probably be fixed already.
This problem could be easily solved with a moving garbage collector, but there are far too many developers in this world thinking "GC iz 4 teh n00bz im a r33l h4rdk0r pr0gr4amar I dont n33d th4t babi stuf".
Pity there's not a similar lightweight native Firefox derivative for Windows. It's entirely reasonable to not know that a native Gecko-based browser exists for Windows, but it is complete idiocy to assume such a thing doesn't exist simply because you've never heard of it.
BTW, Firefox is basically just a front-end for Gecko. If you want to make a browser that uses native widgets, you're not going to start with Firefox. Camino, K-Meleno, Galeon, and other browsers with native front-ends are not derived from Firefox.
ActuaryDude: user ID 1191181 first (and only) post on 2007/11/19 at 12:20pm
larsbus2: using ID 1191173 first post on 2007/11/19 at 12:30pm
Both have discussed nothing but dowsing. Both have only commented in this thread. Both are probably mere sock puppets for the real account, which was probably also used to spout ridiculous idiocy amount magic and superstition.
Not only did they join on the same day to comment in the same thread about the same topic, but larsbus2's first post came just 10 minutes after ActuaryDude's first post. This must be destiny!
This is absolute madness You're overreacting.
However, it makes me sad to see people label what made us who we are unacceptable to todays youth. You mean like smoking and racial segregation? You might like to believe your childhood was a perfect world, but in reality it wasn't. Some of the stuff that was acceptable in your time is highly detrimental to humanity and needs to be labeled as unacceptable.
All these people are trying to do is inform parents that the Sesame Street of old may not be what they're expecting it to be. Is that really so bad?
Aiding and abetting, for starters, then implied terroristic threats. I knew things were getting bad, but is this really how strong the state of fear has become? Gathering up publicly available information and making it available to others is now a sign of terrorism? Do people even know what "terrorism" means anymore?
HELP SAVE YOUR COUNTRY! REPORT SUSPECTED INFORMATION SPREADERS TODAY!
I'm sure we'll be much better off when spreading information earns a death sentence.
Also, you seem to have about as much understanding of the internet as the "series of tubes" guy. If spreading this information becomes illegal, people will just start posting it anonymously. Spreading information anonymously is easy on the internet. Making this activity illegal would accomplish nothing.
That the language makes it easy for you to avoid becoming a better programmer is NOT a good thing. Using a more difficult language doesn't make people better programmers. If that were true, we'd all be coding in assembly. Do you code everything in assembly? If you practice what you preach you would.
I don't want to start a FF memory discussion Too bad, I'm doing it anyway, because it's a great example. Firefox's memory leaks are negligible, the real problem is fragmentation. And you know what would fix that? A moving garbage collector. You'd be seeing lower memory usage if Firefox was using a garbage collector.
Slashdot editors are even more pathetic than I thought they were. It's bad enough that they didn't skim through the article, but they apparently didn't even take a look at the URL. Look at this thing: http://www.codeproject.com/showcase/IfOnlyWedUsedANTSProfiler.asp "IfOnlyWedUsedANTSProfiler"? That didn't raise any flags?
Of course, I'm trying to assume good faith and not just conclude that the editors knew this was an advertisement, but they sure are making that difficult.
I don't know about way back in the day, but the term "democracy" has included representative democracy for quite a while. For the meaning you're thinking of, you should use the term "direct democracy" or "pure democracy".
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I love having thousands of options covering the smallest of details. I only ever change a small percentage of them, but I really really want to have those options, and other people are going to want different options. If I have to choose between "only a few options, and not many of the ones I want" or "tons of options, including the ones I want", I'd definitely choose the tons of options.
That should be: "The only thing that really bugs me about Plasma is that I don't know why it's being done."
Why is it that Digg allows users to edit their comments for a few seconds, while Slashdot doesn't, when Slashdot is more oriented towards computer geeks and programmers?
The only thing that really bugs me about Plasma is that I don't know it's being done. I've never seen a rationale section or anything about why it's being created. When you initiate a massive project like this, you need to be clear about why you're doing it. I can't really see any reason for it; it just seems like a massive waste of time reinventing the wheel.
I'm sure there's some mailing list archive or something where the reason for implementing this huge change is fully explained, but for the average person it's not easy to find.
But I appreciate your work and I look forward to KDE4.
The problem is that there isn't enough competition. If somebody could figure out how to get some competition going, we wouldn't have to deal with this. But how the hell are we supposed to encourage competition in this area? Monopolies form easily in the telecommunications industry and are difficult to bust.
If we really want to fix this industry in the long run, we're going to have to fundamentally rethink something.
That's why there is currently no scientific theory on the origin of life that is accepted as fact. (Although there are several aspects that can be tested and proven, just not enough to show a whole picture.)
However, the creationists aren't asking for schools to say, "We don't know how this happened." They're asking for schools to say, "There's no way this could have happened by chance. It must have been God." That's a big difference.
This is the God of the gaps argument, an argument of ignorance. "We don't know how it happened, so it must have been God." It's been wrong hundreds upon hundreds of times before, yet religious people continue to claim certain things can't happen on their own and must be caused by gods.
When will you people learn? Not knowing how something happens doesn't mean it can't happen on its own! It doesn't mean there must be gods doing it!
RMS might be a bit of a crazy idealist, but he's done a lot of good for the world, and he should be appreciated for what he's done. He really really cares a lot about digital freedom. If RMS says something is okay, (e.g. selling GPLed software) then I feel confident that it probably really is okay. RMS wouldn't ever approve of something that goes against libre software. His unwillingness to compromise may be frustrating sometimes, but he's definitely a guy you can trust.
What really gets me is the complete disregard for backwards compatibility. Web developers and the HTML 5 spec puts a lot of importance on new additions being able to fall back gracefully in browsers that don't recognize them.
For example, in the very first idea of adding a version attribute (which I'm totally for), he proudly states "No more doctypes." Except that means every browser that doesn't recognize the version attribute will go into quirks mode. Your new HTML5 webpage now looks like shit in all browsers that don't recognize the version attribute, even if all you did was remove the doctype and add the version attribute.
It's like he doesn't realize that web developers will want their stuff to continue working in older browsers.
Some people are suing Microsoft because the "Vista capable" labels are misleading. They're saying "Vista capable" implies a computer meets the minimum requirements to run any version of Vista, while the actual meaning is that it meets the minimum requirements for just the Home Basic version.
Their claim got a boost when Microsoft's marketing director showed that he also thought "Vista capable" meant that a computer meets the minimum requirements to run any version of Vista.
From Wikipedia:
We can still dream. ICO is a really fantastic game, and I'd love to see it become libre software.
Microsoft is way too big for me to have a single opinion about all of it. Same with Sony and other large companies/organizations. Some parts of them may be horribly evil, but that doesn't mean there isn't significant goodness in there as well.
Ewww... wash your hands already. >_
The actual amount of memory used is very low. The problem is fragmentation. If Mozilla would actually tackle the real problem instead of focusing on what know-nothing users continuously claim is the problem, it would probably be fixed already.
This problem could be easily solved with a moving garbage collector, but there are far too many developers in this world thinking "GC iz 4 teh n00bz im a r33l h4rdk0r pr0gr4amar I dont n33d th4t babi stuf".
BTW, Firefox is basically just a front-end for Gecko. If you want to make a browser that uses native widgets, you're not going to start with Firefox. Camino, K-Meleno, Galeon, and other browsers with native front-ends are not derived from Firefox.
ActuaryDude:
user ID 1191181
first (and only) post on 2007/11/19 at 12:20pm
larsbus2:
using ID 1191173
first post on 2007/11/19 at 12:30pm
Both have discussed nothing but dowsing. Both have only commented in this thread. Both are probably mere sock puppets for the real account, which was probably also used to spout ridiculous idiocy amount magic and superstition.
Not only did they join on the same day to comment in the same thread about the same topic, but larsbus2's first post came just 10 minutes after ActuaryDude's first post. This must be destiny!
All these people are trying to do is inform parents that the Sesame Street of old may not be what they're expecting it to be. Is that really so bad?
HELP SAVE YOUR COUNTRY! REPORT SUSPECTED INFORMATION SPREADERS TODAY!
I'm sure we'll be much better off when spreading information earns a death sentence.
Also, you seem to have about as much understanding of the internet as the "series of tubes" guy. If spreading this information becomes illegal, people will just start posting it anonymously. Spreading information anonymously is easy on the internet. Making this activity illegal would accomplish nothing.
Is it bad that I've done this? I mean certainly it's bad to do it every day, but every once in a while is fine, right?
Slashdot editors are even more pathetic than I thought they were. It's bad enough that they didn't skim through the article, but they apparently didn't even take a look at the URL. Look at this thing:
http://www.codeproject.com/showcase/IfOnlyWedUsedANTSProfiler.asp
"IfOnlyWedUsedANTSProfiler"? That didn't raise any flags?
Of course, I'm trying to assume good faith and not just conclude that the editors knew this was an advertisement, but they sure are making that difficult.
I don't know about way back in the day, but the term "democracy" has included representative democracy for quite a while. For the meaning you're thinking of, you should use the term "direct democracy" or "pure democracy".
Who cares if the OpenDocument Foundation shuts down? It never really did much of anything anyway.
OpenDocument will not be affected by this.