At some point, I am going to have to "upgrade" from XP to 7, and I am not looking forward to it. Superfetch is just not practical for coexistence heavy hitter video,/graphics/sound applications. If it weren't for Rhino3d, and a handful of games, I'd dump Windows entirely.
We live in an interesting time when the power of information that has far exceeded proper checks and balances, but a great protection people have from the ignorant ideas of the past--is anonymity.
Send a message to Kapersky that access to the Internet has become more a right then a privilege--by ending his company from whatever legal means possible.
I just submitted a story the other day, which was rejected by Slashdot, who has has rejected 3:3 of my stories now.
The last story I submitted was titled: When Open Source Follows the Bad Examples of Closed Source. It may not be earth-shattering, but I thought it was rejected because it might cause controversy.
Quick-Starters Need to Die! Quick-starters were probably devised by marketing people in an effort to make programs appear to bloated software appear to start faster. The catch is: they must always make the program larger. Sadly, even OpenOffice.org succumbed to using uses a quick-starter by default.
When was the last time you wanted your computer to boot slower?
Why must programs use obfuscated file formats? Do, you have Mozilla Thunderbird? Do you want to transfer a few emails and contacts to another machine? You probably will not because Thunderbird saves all it's email in the mbox format variant, so you can just forget about dragging the mails out. Yes, there are header databases, but those could just as easily work for some atomic/modular format scheme, but they do not. This gives the perhaps unfounded appearance of a commercial-style lock-in attempt. It also makes Squirrel Mail looks a little cuter and furrier. I love Thunderbird, so why do this to me?
Would not it be nice to have all your contacts in a folder in V-Cards, or something similar? If they were V-Cards, you could share them more easily, and even sort them by date, in a GUI file manager or command line.
Why hide user data? I am willing to bet you do not know the name of the random string Thunderbird or Firefox assigned to your profile. No peeking! Perhaps, you have two profiles--which one are you using? Users should be prompted for meaningful profile names instead of using random strings for their data. Why even hide user data in "Application Data" in Windows? I know that it is where it is supposed to go, but often it's not backed up--because by default the users cannot even see it. In Linux, we put a dot in front of the file name, so we can also forget that it is our data to be backed up. Is there something wrong about placing it a folder called "Mail" in our home folder, where we can see it, and let multiple programs access it?
Why must Gnome users use Evolution? Do you use Thunderbird or another email client? Well, good luck ridding your system of Evolution. My fiend thought I was kidding--until he tried to take off of his wife's netbook, for which it was too large, in a few ways. What's good for Novell--might not be what's best for the average Gnome user. Loosen the deathgrip, please. Overall Gnome needs to be more modular. Divide and conquer, just like Mozilla did.
Why carrying bad design choices forward? Blender is a powerful program, and coupled with the equally powerful Yaffray ray-tracer, it has been used for impressive animations, such as "Uncle Buck Bunny" and "Elephant's Dream." With this said, it has a dirty, not-so-secret: its user interface.
While people are hard at work making the changes in Blender that will accept the changes in the user interface, will the Blender team, and the column of users who have maladjusted to its current user interface--also accept change? There is a lot good in Blender, but asking the user to right-click to select and object is a most grievous insult, and user interface default.
Why emulate the Windows registry? Sigh, this insecure-by-design abomination has been used and emulated too much be open source software. What's that, you can't password protect levels of a registry like you could in folders and directories? You just need to create a registry emulation for a Linux version? Does not this slow the Linux version development?
Why use mono? It's Microsoft's horse, and you can't drive it. Follow it, and you shall follow.
Open source programs need not emulate the bad habits of their their commercial counterparts. Controversial: perhaps, flame-bait, perhaps also, but it is my hope that to encourage open source developers to take a peripheral view of their software
What idiot thought that bill up? You can buy small cameras that don't go click. What about the times when you are expect to be discrete about taking a photo?
The click is nothing that can't be changed with a piece of tape of a pair of wire cutters.
Apparently, Apple is still using polystyrene foam in their packaging, while many other companies have learned ways to use cardboard and composite paperboard to do the same thing, Apple has not.
Styrene, the plasticizer in the foam named after such, is a known cancer causing chemical.
I challenge Apple's to change its out of the box experience to eliminate styrene foam!
The billet aluminum construction allows Apple to have the case made from almost any competent CNC shop. Thought they were extruding the material to rough the size for savings, the dimension could also be cut from plate. This means that Apple is no longer stuck with a single-source for cases. Stamped and bent fussy parts and custom dies are not needed. Minor product changes, such as adding bosses/riser can be done on the fly.
The inside of the case could have been milled using a ball mill which would have introduced radii that would keep the thick/thin area transitions from failure when there is a fall.
In the future, they may be able to add more support for a tougher case. Still, I still would not want to drop a new Macbook pro.
The radius on the edge of the case should have a larger radius to be more comfortable, but also to minimize that sharp edge as a wear indicator. Ives is good, but like everyone else--not perfect, someone needs to know when and when not to question him.
The better graphic chip in the Macbook means that It can finally run graphic applications, and the change may have something to do with Nvidia Cuda support in applications such Photoshop--bearing down on product design. It also means that Macbooks may be able to run FinalCut, or have enough graphic power to play and edit home movies from their AVCHD digital camcorder.
I am saddened by the exclusion of a matte screen. While it is a personal preference, I feel that glossy screens do not work well in indoor/outdoor environments such as coffeeshops. To watch Apple's own product design videos, is to see the glare for yourself.
I am uncertain whether or not there is a interference coating on the screen. Adding a second piece of glass could add 5% transmission loss per service, meaning 10% if the glass is not interference coated. This means a brighr backlight setting, and the loss of batter life. The expansive glass on the screen goes close to the edges, meaning that a 3mm dent in the lid will probably shatter the cover glass. I reason that the older Macbook Pro would survive that damage, and the new ones would not.
A disconnection between polluters and atmosphere cleaning tools breeds irresponsibility. Should the taxpayers supposed to pay to clean up industry's mess?
Handle pollution at the source.
Radio carbon dating for recent artifacts has been calibrated using dendrochronology, using old redwood trees, comparing the samples to counted rings.
AFAIK, radio carbon dating gives a range--not an exact date.
Science as a process, and scientific information becomes more exact over time. The process of fine-tuning radio carbon dating will continue.
Recently, I download a math documentary in Bit torrent. Even though I had the pre-allocation on, several of the files had 500-600 fragments each by the time they were done, on Windows XP, NTFS.
Having thought about it, if a hard drive seek time is 8ms, it would take 4 seconds, just to seek the file forget about reading it. The solid state drives would seek the file fragments almost instantly.
Fragmentation on a solid state drive is an interesting issue. You do not have to defragment for speed. There is a double edged sward that exists. On one hand, your data may be more secure not being broken into so many parts, and not having so many jump entries in the file allocation system. On the other hand, moving the data, such as during fragmentation wears the media, which does have a limited write lifetime.
I use XP for doing graphic stuff, such as PhotoShop and Rhino3D, and for a few games, such as ThiefII, yet it seems that Windows NTFS is woefully inferior as far as data security and fragmentation issues. NTFS has no journaling.
I eagarly await EXT4, with it's preallocation, and wish that it was plugable into XP.
All the evidence was carted away.
I cannot believe that anyone could have done an impartial study, meaning that there is to much pressure to prove things one way or another, and that belies scientific study.
Almost no one is using USB for CNC machines calming that the negotiation and latency are much too high for real-time application such as CNC machines. Will the new USB fix that?
When you die, you go to a structure, with enough of room for you--minus all your garbage.
Thanks a lot for needlessly screwing up the planet for every one else, you selfish bastards!
There's an open source Finite Element Analysis program.
It has a client-server clustering capability.
http://impact.sourceforge.net/
You can make it rain expensive sports-cars upon the pavement, if you want.
If you ever get a chance to try one--try it.
Everything you know about laptop keyboard may be wrong.
I wish I had a desktop keyboard as good. I wish I even knew who made it.
I almost switched to Dreamhost this week, until I found out about this bull$hit. I guess I am sticking to my current provider.
I have thousands of pop emails. I can sort and search instantly in Thunderbird.
The ability to make and break email accounts is a good thing for preventing spam.
I've used the Gimp a lot in the past, but I think it's a waste of time for developers to work on code trees that cannot do 32-Bit color?
I also wish the window-soup would end as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, what a POS!
At some point, I am going to have to "upgrade" from XP to 7, and I am not looking forward to it. Superfetch is just not practical for coexistence heavy hitter video,/graphics/sound applications.
If it weren't for Rhino3d, and a handful of games, I'd dump Windows entirely.
Linux never uses a bit of VM unless you need it.
Should have went with JACK audio server.
Oh, this is bullshit--encrypt the plugin folder and be done with it.
Or, has Mozilla sold out?
We live in an interesting time when the power of information that has far exceeded proper checks and balances, but a great protection people have from the ignorant ideas of the past--is anonymity.
Send a message to Kapersky that access to the Internet has become more a right then a privilege--by ending his company from whatever legal means possible.
It looks nice, but I question the value of lowing a netbook's capability to toat of a smartphone/pda.
Microsoft Windows, and their vendor have a lot of work to do to make their offerings compatible for SSD.
This appears to be the same thing that Intel did, there is no advantage to 64-bit--until we do it.
I just submitted a story the other day, which was rejected by Slashdot, who has has rejected 3:3 of my stories now.
The last story I submitted was titled: When Open Source Follows the Bad Examples of Closed Source. It may not be earth-shattering, but I thought it was rejected because it might cause controversy.
Quick-Starters Need to Die! Quick-starters were probably devised by marketing people in an effort to make programs appear to bloated software appear to start faster. The catch is: they must always make the program larger. Sadly, even OpenOffice.org succumbed to using uses a quick-starter by default.
When was the last time you wanted your computer to boot slower?
Why must programs use obfuscated file formats? Do, you have Mozilla Thunderbird? Do you want to transfer a few emails and contacts to another machine? You probably will not because Thunderbird saves all it's email in the mbox format variant, so you can just forget about dragging the mails out. Yes, there are header databases, but those could just as easily work for some atomic/modular format scheme, but they do not. This gives the perhaps unfounded appearance of a commercial-style lock-in attempt. It also makes Squirrel Mail looks a little cuter and furrier. I love Thunderbird, so why do this to me?
Would not it be nice to have all your contacts in a folder in V-Cards, or something similar? If they were V-Cards, you could share them more easily, and even sort them by date, in a GUI file manager or command line.
Why hide user data? I am willing to bet you do not know the name of the random string Thunderbird or Firefox assigned to your profile. No peeking! Perhaps, you have two profiles--which one are you using? Users should be prompted for meaningful profile names instead of using random strings for their data. Why even hide user data in "Application Data" in Windows? I know that it is where it is supposed to go, but often it's not backed up--because by default the users cannot even see it. In Linux, we put a dot in front of the file name, so we can also forget that it is our data to be backed up. Is there something wrong about placing it a folder called "Mail" in our home folder, where we can see it, and let multiple programs access it?
Why must Gnome users use Evolution? Do you use Thunderbird or another email client? Well, good luck ridding your system of Evolution. My fiend thought I was kidding--until he tried to take off of his wife's netbook, for which it was too large, in a few ways. What's good for Novell--might not be what's best for the average Gnome user. Loosen the deathgrip, please. Overall Gnome needs to be more modular. Divide and conquer, just like Mozilla did.
Why carrying bad design choices forward? Blender is a powerful program, and coupled with the equally powerful Yaffray ray-tracer, it has been used for impressive animations, such as "Uncle Buck Bunny" and "Elephant's Dream." With this said, it has a dirty, not-so-secret: its user interface.
While people are hard at work making the changes in Blender that will accept the changes in the user interface, will the Blender team, and the column of users who have maladjusted to its current user interface--also accept change? There is a lot good in Blender, but asking the user to right-click to select and object is a most grievous insult, and user interface default.
Why emulate the Windows registry? Sigh, this insecure-by-design abomination has been used and emulated too much be open source software. What's that, you can't password protect levels of a registry like you could in folders and directories? You just need to create a registry emulation for a Linux version? Does not this slow the Linux version development?
Why use mono? It's Microsoft's horse, and you can't drive it. Follow it, and you shall follow.
Open source programs need not emulate the bad habits of their their commercial counterparts. Controversial: perhaps, flame-bait, perhaps also, but it is my hope that to encourage open source developers to take a peripheral view of their software
Ask yourself, why are they doing this:
1.) Lossy music compression is becoming pointless as storage and bandwidth is concerned, and they want to charge money--for something.
2.) They want people to become confused on which songs are lossy compressed and non-lossy compressed.
Bottom line: When buying music, look for the Flac quality seal, or rip it yourslelf!
I am a legal owner of HL1, and I never bought HL2 only because I didn't want to deal with steam.
If any corporation made unsubstantiated claims such as that, they would be sued.
If open source is to survive, it must protect itself.
BrendaEM
Just because some idiot makes it does not mean than another idiot hast to buy it.
Boycott Microsoft.
I wrote about 200,000 words in Openoffice writer, and also a screenplay. The file format is compressed, so I can keep more versions.
Try it, it's different, but not bad.
Take Care,
BrendaEM
What idiot thought that bill up? You can buy small cameras that don't go click. What about the times when you are expect to be discrete about taking a photo?
The click is nothing that can't be changed with a piece of tape of a pair of wire cutters.
Apparently, Apple is still using polystyrene foam in their packaging, while many other companies have learned ways to use cardboard and composite paperboard to do the same thing, Apple has not.
Styrene, the plasticizer in the foam named after such, is a known cancer causing chemical.
I challenge Apple's to change its out of the box experience to eliminate styrene foam!
The billet aluminum construction allows Apple to have the case made from almost any competent CNC shop. Thought they were extruding the material to rough the size for savings, the dimension could also be cut from plate. This means that Apple is no longer stuck with a single-source for cases. Stamped and bent fussy parts and custom dies are not needed. Minor product changes, such as adding bosses/riser can be done on the fly.
The inside of the case could have been milled using a ball mill which would have introduced radii that would keep the thick/thin area transitions from failure when there is a fall.
In the future, they may be able to add more support for a tougher case. Still, I still would not want to drop a new Macbook pro.
The radius on the edge of the case should have a larger radius to be more comfortable, but also to minimize that sharp edge as a wear indicator. Ives is good, but like everyone else--not perfect, someone needs to know when and when not to question him.
The better graphic chip in the Macbook means that It can finally run graphic applications, and the change may have something to do with Nvidia Cuda support in applications such Photoshop--bearing down on product design. It also means that Macbooks may be able to run FinalCut, or have enough graphic power to play and edit home movies from their AVCHD digital camcorder.
I am saddened by the exclusion of a matte screen. While it is a personal preference, I feel that glossy screens do not work well in indoor/outdoor environments such as coffeeshops. To watch Apple's own product design videos, is to see the glare for yourself.
I am uncertain whether or not there is a interference coating on the screen. Adding a second piece of glass could add 5% transmission loss per service, meaning 10% if the glass is not interference coated. This means a brighr backlight setting, and the loss of batter life. The expansive glass on the screen goes close to the edges, meaning that a 3mm dent in the lid will probably shatter the cover glass. I reason that the older Macbook Pro would survive that damage, and the new ones would not.
Brenda Make
A disconnection between polluters and atmosphere cleaning tools breeds irresponsibility. Should the taxpayers supposed to pay to clean up industry's mess? Handle pollution at the source.
Radio carbon dating for recent artifacts has been calibrated using dendrochronology, using old redwood trees, comparing the samples to counted rings. AFAIK, radio carbon dating gives a range--not an exact date. Science as a process, and scientific information becomes more exact over time. The process of fine-tuning radio carbon dating will continue.
Recently, I download a math documentary in Bit torrent. Even though I had the pre-allocation on, several of the files had 500-600 fragments each by the time they were done, on Windows XP, NTFS. Having thought about it, if a hard drive seek time is 8ms, it would take 4 seconds, just to seek the file forget about reading it. The solid state drives would seek the file fragments almost instantly. Fragmentation on a solid state drive is an interesting issue. You do not have to defragment for speed. There is a double edged sward that exists. On one hand, your data may be more secure not being broken into so many parts, and not having so many jump entries in the file allocation system. On the other hand, moving the data, such as during fragmentation wears the media, which does have a limited write lifetime. I use XP for doing graphic stuff, such as PhotoShop and Rhino3D, and for a few games, such as ThiefII, yet it seems that Windows NTFS is woefully inferior as far as data security and fragmentation issues. NTFS has no journaling. I eagarly await EXT4, with it's preallocation, and wish that it was plugable into XP.
All the evidence was carted away. I cannot believe that anyone could have done an impartial study, meaning that there is to much pressure to prove things one way or another, and that belies scientific study.
Almost no one is using USB for CNC machines calming that the negotiation and latency are much too high for real-time application such as CNC machines. Will the new USB fix that?
When you die, you go to a structure, with enough of room for you--minus all your garbage. Thanks a lot for needlessly screwing up the planet for every one else, you selfish bastards!
There's an open source Finite Element Analysis program. It has a client-server clustering capability. http://impact.sourceforge.net/ You can make it rain expensive sports-cars upon the pavement, if you want.
If you ever get a chance to try one--try it. Everything you know about laptop keyboard may be wrong. I wish I had a desktop keyboard as good. I wish I even knew who made it.
I almost switched to Dreamhost this week, until I found out about this bull$hit. I guess I am sticking to my current provider. I have thousands of pop emails. I can sort and search instantly in Thunderbird. The ability to make and break email accounts is a good thing for preventing spam.
I've used the Gimp a lot in the past, but I think it's a waste of time for developers to work on code trees that cannot do 32-Bit color? I also wish the window-soup would end as well.