No. It will just cause a recurring cycle: Currently they stock stores with nothing but rap and hip-hop. This study will show that downloaders are looking for *ANYTHING* else to listen to, so they'll just stock less rap and more music. Of course then it will be the hip-hop kiddies that are downloading everything and things will shift back the other way again. The basic problem is that a business has to focus on where it sees the most profit and can't please everyone - right now they are only focusing on teenage brats who wear doo-rags, have more of their underwear exposed than hidden, and have weapon-grade car stereos.
quite a while. There may be some slight benefit to introducing gaseous hydrogen into the combustion chamber in improving the combustion of the atomized (fine droplets) gasoline, but I find the overall benefit doubtful. Adding a drain on the electrical system puts more of a strain on the engine - if you don't believe this, start your car and let it warm up, make sure the AC/blower and radio are off so that you can hear. Now, turn on your headlights and listen to the change in the sound of your engine - it will bog down slightly. If you have a tach, you will be able to see the slight change in engine rpm there too. The engine has to work harder because the alternator is now harder to turn. Adding any electrical drain will have the same effect. Since there is loss of energy in splitting the water, less energy is returned through combustion than was used to produce the hydrogen, there would be little real benefit and actually a possible loss of fuel effeciency. It is possible that water vapor is entering the combustion chamber which DOES actually increase effeciency by increasing the amount of expansion of gasses during combustion - that can be done with a simple passive system much cheaper and consumes no electricity and has nothing to do with hydrogen production.
And a study of physics will help you understand that more energy is consumed splitting the water than is returned by the combustion of the hydrogen. Try this some time, start your car and let it idle for a little bit just to get a stable warm idle rpm - now turn on your headlights and listen carefully to the engine or watch the tach if you have one. The engine will bog down slightly from the increased resistance from the alternator which was previously spinning freely. Introducing any kind of electrical strain will have the same effect - the engine has to work harder to turn the alternator.
P.S. I really enjoy thinking of Python users eating shit on their compiles withe parser trying to determine what mystical combination of spaces and tabs results in an indentation.
Ignoring the obvious fact that Python is not a compiled language anyway, why would you be mixing tabs and spaces? Maybe you need to find a better text editor if you aren't able to expand tabs. http://www.vim.org/
And why, prey tell, would anyone have that particular problem? I have had no problem opening any.doc file in OO. I would strongly suspect that the user being incapable of double clicking on a file's icon in order to open it would not be an acceptable reason for return.
In fact, here is an article on building an application for Windows using Visual Studio 2003 with Glade-2 to build the user interface. http://www.mfconsulting.com/tutorial/newgladeapp/
Like I said, it is not limited to any single window manager or desktop environment.
Actually, I'm rather looking forward to Vista. Microsoft will put pressure on hardware vendors to come out with these outrageous machines at consumer prices, mainly just the effect of greater demand for such monsters. I find it hard to immagine how nicely Linux is going to run on a 4 Ghz dual core box with 2 Gb ram. Thanks to Microsoft's bloatware, I won't have to immagine though - I will be able to afford it!
What features are in Vista that would inspire me to upgrade besides the UI? Frankly the UI looks big and clunky like XP and flat out ugly...
The same "features" that XP has: enormous numbers of bugs, enormous numbers of security holes, vendor lock-in, lack of package management, etcetera. All that Vista adds is DRM and expensive hardware requirements. In short, if this list hasn't made you upgrade from XP to Linux yet, then you will probably buy Vista and continue to use it as well.
I live in a small city ~55,000 people. We lost our only non-corporate grocery store recently. There are several localy owned restaurants left, but very little else. There are no book stores other than the corporate chain at the mall. The last bike shop closed this summer. Walmart, Target, and etcetera in the mall and strip shopping centers have nearly turned the down-town into a ghetto, albeit a ghetoo with a number of beautiful historic buildings. I'm beginning to think that only places with ultra-high population density like New York City are safe from the big-box cancer. I would love to live someplace where far more of the businesses are locally owned than not, but I doubt that I will ever be that fortunate.
If $100 Million dollars won't make you want to switch to Vista, what will?"
Why, prey tell, would the amount of money that MSFT spends on its ad campaign make me want to use their products? I *did* switched from Windows 3.1 during the infamous and obscene Windows 95 ad bombardment, but that switch was to Linux where I've stayed ever since.
Exactly! I can fire up gtk-gnutella and find damn near anything I want: Janice Joplin, any Niel Young ever, Lectures by Noam Chompsky, Dead Kenedy's, anything. Since Wallmart and Circuit city have put every real record/music store out of business, my choices would be limited to whatever they can make the most money off of - which all seems to be rap or hip-hop right now. Commercial radio isn't worth listening to at all anymore, and frankly I have more luck finding music that I want to hear at yard sales than on racks in a store.
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that Firefox is "defect-free", security issues aside I've had FF crash on me at least twice in the last year or so:-)
So what this article says is that the open source development model finds and fixes bugs much quicker than a single company could ever hope to. Cool. I'd much rather have security holes discovered and fixed quickly - also I wonder how many of these holes in FF only effected Windows users?
don't mean anything unless you do a side by side comparison of the security holes. What is the severity of each bug? Clearly, there is more activity and work in finding and actually fixing bugs in FF than there ever could be in IE, which could in and of itself account for the higher numbers.
only really make sense if you view Firefox as a browser for ex-IE users rather than an independant product on its own:
The search in page field at the bottom makes perfect sense to me for a couple reasons - first, the user very rarely cares WHERE it is located as they probably aren't clicking on it with the mouse, if you want to search for text in the page you type '/' and whatever the hell you want to search for. You have to have your hands on the keyboard to enter the text you are trying to find, so why the hell would you want to use the mouse anyway. Secondly, it is less frequently used than the address and web-search fields and therefore shouldn't clutter up the interface - that is also why it is usually hidden. For anyone used to VIM, nothing in the world would seem more logical. These are perfectly good design decisions, who cares if IE users have to adjust a bit? In fact, not *everyone* is even familiar with IE - I know I never had internet access when I ran windows 10 years ago, and I've probably only used IE maybe 10 or 12 times in all of that time. We need to quit viewing everything in the context of "what would Windows do?", and just write software that does its job well.
Ctrl+w closes the current tab or, if no tabs are open, closes the current window, which is not quite but very close to the behaviour that you are asking for.
I have not used Windows since 1995. I fully admit that Linux has long been an operating system that requires more experience, thinking, problem solving, and learning than the average person wants to invest. Most people certainly would never immagine running an operating system where they ever have to edit a configuration file by hand - fstab? huh? I would say that that has changed quite a bit in recent years. I am now running Ubuntu and can honestly say that this is the first time, after a decade as a Linux user, that I have installed a distro and not once had to touch a configuration file or manually set up anything. My sound, wireless, X11, etc. were all correctly configured. We have now gotten to the point where Linux is very much "ready for the desktop" with one little catch: It is perfect as a primary operating system for anyone with broadband internet. Dialup users would be unable to install or update software without a lot of time and hassle. Windows makes more sense for dial-up users, but no sense for anyone with a broadband connection.
Quick Example: In Firefox on Linux, the OK and Cancel buttons are reversed... why?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. If you mean that they are the reverse of other applications, then I guess I just have never noticed. If you mean "in the opposite order from Windows", then who really cares? Developers better things to do than check with their Windows user neighbor to see which button Windows puts on the left and which it puts on the right.
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No. It will just cause a recurring cycle: Currently they stock stores with nothing but rap and hip-hop. This study will show that downloaders are looking for *ANYTHING* else to listen to, so they'll just stock less rap and more music. Of course then it will be the hip-hop kiddies that are downloading everything and things will shift back the other way again. The basic problem is that a business has to focus on where it sees the most profit and can't please everyone - right now they are only focusing on teenage brats who wear doo-rags, have more of their underwear exposed than hidden, and have weapon-grade car stereos.
quite a while. There may be some slight benefit to introducing gaseous hydrogen into the combustion chamber in improving the combustion of the atomized (fine droplets) gasoline, but I find the overall benefit doubtful. Adding a drain on the electrical system puts more of a strain on the engine - if you don't believe this, start your car and let it warm up, make sure the AC/blower and radio are off so that you can hear. Now, turn on your headlights and listen to the change in the sound of your engine - it will bog down slightly. If you have a tach, you will be able to see the slight change in engine rpm there too. The engine has to work harder because the alternator is now harder to turn. Adding any electrical drain will have the same effect. Since there is loss of energy in splitting the water, less energy is returned through combustion than was used to produce the hydrogen, there would be little real benefit and actually a possible loss of fuel effeciency. It is possible that water vapor is entering the combustion chamber which DOES actually increase effeciency by increasing the amount of expansion of gasses during combustion - that can be done with a simple passive system much cheaper and consumes no electricity and has nothing to do with hydrogen production.
And a study of physics will help you understand that more energy is consumed splitting the water than is returned by the combustion of the hydrogen. Try this some time, start your car and let it idle for a little bit just to get a stable warm idle rpm - now turn on your headlights and listen carefully to the engine or watch the tach if you have one. The engine will bog down slightly from the increased resistance from the alternator which was previously spinning freely. Introducing any kind of electrical strain will have the same effect - the engine has to work harder to turn the alternator.
Was Microsoft's "Race to Linux" project?
And why, prey tell, would anyone have that particular problem? I have had no problem opening any .doc file in OO. I would strongly suspect that the user being incapable of double clicking on a file's icon in order to open it would not be an acceptable reason for return.
In fact, here is an article on building an application for Windows using Visual Studio 2003 with Glade-2 to build the user interface. http://www.mfconsulting.com/tutorial/newgladeapp/ Like I said, it is not limited to any single window manager or desktop environment.
No it isn't. It is GTK specific, but it is just as useful for building non-Gnome apps as Gnome apps.
Actually, I'm rather looking forward to Vista. Microsoft will put pressure on hardware vendors to come out with these outrageous machines at consumer prices, mainly just the effect of greater demand for such monsters. I find it hard to immagine how nicely Linux is going to run on a 4 Ghz dual core box with 2 Gb ram. Thanks to Microsoft's bloatware, I won't have to immagine though - I will be able to afford it!
In other words: http://glade.gnome.org/
I live in a small city ~55,000 people. We lost our only non-corporate grocery store recently. There are several localy owned restaurants left, but very little else. There are no book stores other than the corporate chain at the mall. The last bike shop closed this summer. Walmart, Target, and etcetera in the mall and strip shopping centers have nearly turned the down-town into a ghetto, albeit a ghetoo with a number of beautiful historic buildings. I'm beginning to think that only places with ultra-high population density like New York City are safe from the big-box cancer. I would love to live someplace where far more of the businesses are locally owned than not, but I doubt that I will ever be that fortunate.
Exactly! I can fire up gtk-gnutella and find damn near anything I want: Janice Joplin, any Niel Young ever, Lectures by Noam Chompsky, Dead Kenedy's, anything. Since Wallmart and Circuit city have put every real record/music store out of business, my choices would be limited to whatever they can make the most money off of - which all seems to be rap or hip-hop right now. Commercial radio isn't worth listening to at all anymore, and frankly I have more luck finding music that I want to hear at yard sales than on racks in a store.
How is this new? In related news, SCO is suddenly saying that the Linux kernel contains stolen code from Unix!
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that Firefox is "defect-free", security issues aside I've had FF crash on me at least twice in the last year or so :-)
So what this article says is that the open source development model finds and fixes bugs much quicker than a single company could ever hope to. Cool. I'd much rather have security holes discovered and fixed quickly - also I wonder how many of these holes in FF only effected Windows users?
don't mean anything unless you do a side by side comparison of the security holes. What is the severity of each bug? Clearly, there is more activity and work in finding and actually fixing bugs in FF than there ever could be in IE, which could in and of itself account for the higher numbers.
Flamebate? I don't think so.
only really make sense if you view Firefox as a browser for ex-IE users rather than an independant product on its own:
The search in page field at the bottom makes perfect sense to me for a couple reasons - first, the user very rarely cares WHERE it is located as they probably aren't clicking on it with the mouse, if you want to search for text in the page you type '/' and whatever the hell you want to search for. You have to have your hands on the keyboard to enter the text you are trying to find, so why the hell would you want to use the mouse anyway. Secondly, it is less frequently used than the address and web-search fields and therefore shouldn't clutter up the interface - that is also why it is usually hidden. For anyone used to VIM, nothing in the world would seem more logical. These are perfectly good design decisions, who cares if IE users have to adjust a bit? In fact, not *everyone* is even familiar with IE - I know I never had internet access when I ran windows 10 years ago, and I've probably only used IE maybe 10 or 12 times in all of that time. We need to quit viewing everything in the context of "what would Windows do?", and just write software that does its job well.
Ctrl+w closes the current tab or, if no tabs are open, closes the current window, which is not quite but very close to the behaviour that you are asking for.
DCC is based on older versions of most packages than those in Ubuntu. Ubuntu can't really be part of DCC.
I have not used Windows since 1995. I fully admit that Linux has long been an operating system that requires more experience, thinking, problem solving, and learning than the average person wants to invest. Most people certainly would never immagine running an operating system where they ever have to edit a configuration file by hand - fstab? huh? I would say that that has changed quite a bit in recent years. I am now running Ubuntu and can honestly say that this is the first time, after a decade as a Linux user, that I have installed a distro and not once had to touch a configuration file or manually set up anything. My sound, wireless, X11, etc. were all correctly configured. We have now gotten to the point where Linux is very much "ready for the desktop" with one little catch: It is perfect as a primary operating system for anyone with broadband internet. Dialup users would be unable to install or update software without a lot of time and hassle. Windows makes more sense for dial-up users, but no sense for anyone with a broadband connection.