Linux Mint doesn't add anything to Gnome except a different theme.. It's really a case of the Ubuntu developers wanting it to look that way, and the Mint developers wanting a different look.
You don't even have to disable the plugin, just install Adblock Plus. I'm sure as soon as WebGL is supported in Firefox, it will also be supported in Adblock.
No, they aren't. Gnome especially looks like shit compared to Mac and Vista. You may have a point when talking about XP or the classic windows manager, though I still prefer XP to Gnome. I haven't used KDE 4, but KDE 3 isn't much better without some -heavy- customization. And I'm no UI designer so I usually end up just screwing it up.
Compiz is definitely cool, but it is ultimately useless and can be a serious resource hog. It's also very buggy, and the UI for managing it beyond "on", "light", or "off" is not very good.
Gnome's default look on my distros isn't very exciting, but some people like that. I use the dust theme on Ubuntu (the titlebars and taskbar are a dark warm gray) and I think it's nice. It's possible to make Gnome look exactly like Windows XP or Vista (I think you need compiz for the aero glass effect), although I don't know of any distro that does by default. KDE is pretty shiny by default now.
And compiz is extremely light on resources. I have Compiz running and the only time you can tell that it's using the processor is when using the cube effect (which is honestly pretty useless). For the important things that compiz does (compositing, expo effect, task thumbnails), it takes almost nothing.
That's the whole point. Windows applications should with Windows. Linux applications should fit with Linux. Just because you're used to using the Windows version doesn't mean that should be the default on every platform..
I got to Colorado State University, and our computer science department has hundreds of computers. Probably 90% are Linux (fedora), with the rest mostly being Solaris and HP-UX, a tiny number of Windows machines (maybe 5?) and then 2 Macs. I'm guessing they use Linux because we can access them from home easier and they're still usable with just the terminal.
I disagree. Firefox on Ubuntu should look like it belongs on Linux. These mockups would be horribly out of place on any Linux desktop that isn't set up to look exactly like Vista/Win7.
Instead of trying to come up with a way to decide who gets extra votes, why not just go with transferable votes, where you can either vote on issues or tranfer your vote to another person (reversible of course). That way if I know that someone else is more informed than me, I can transfer my vote to them and not bother with with the details of politics. Each representative then has their vote, plus all of their constituents votes.
It deals with the problems of underrepresentation (right now if 51% of people voted for one person, and the other 49% voted for another, the 49 group is completely unrepresented), lack of knowledge among voters (most people know nothing about politics, but at least know someone who knows more than they do), and a lot of government incompetence problems (if someone in "your party" does something you don't like, it's not "the Republican" vs "the Democrat", you can just transfer your vote to another person in your party.. although hopefully this would just destroy political parties instead, since they're not helpful).
So if you ported mono to the iPhone and then write wrote an application using it, would that count? Since.net is a Microsoft technology, mono provides a.net framework, and the application is "built on" a Microsoft technology? Just wondering..
But what model would give you a better answer? I would say science asks "How does the world seem to work?" vs. religion/superstition's "How do I want the world to work?" So if I want to know how things really work, is better to go on how they seem to work, or how I want them to work? Or am I missing another option?
Or you could just take the bank websites offline. I'm sure if banks thought the government was competent enough to trust with that power, they'd already have it. Even without government control of some sort of shutdown switch, I'm sure if a bank got a call from the police saying "Shut down your website now or you're going to get hacked", it would be down FAST.
And the enemy is using the net to direct weapons or reveal targets? If they're doing that, they probably already have the info (you can save information from the web), and if they take the internet down, [generic enemy] can still use the phone lines. If they're actually a threat to us (say, Russia), they would also presumably have satellites they could use for communication.
Ext2 IFS does autostart. You have to go into the control panel and tell it which drives to mount once, but after that it does it automatically every time you boot.
The NTFS drivers for Linux work pretty well.. And ext2 IFS works except for:
* Inodes that are larger than 128 bytes are not supported.
* Access rights are not maintained. All users can access all the directories and files of an Ext2 volume. If a new file or directory is created, it inherits all the permissions, the GID and the UID from the directory where it has been created. There is one exception to this rule: a file (but not a directory) the driver has created always has cleared "x" permissions, it inherits the "r" and the "w" permissions only. See also section "What limitations arise from not maintaining access rights?".
* The driver does not allow accessing special files at Ext2 volumes, the access will be always denied. (Special files are sockets, soft links, block devices, character devices and pipes.)
* Alternate 8.3-DOS names are not supported (just because there is no place to store them in an Ext2 file system). This can prevent legacy DOS applications, executed by the NTVDM of Windows, from accessing some files or directories.
* Currently the driver does not implement defragging support. So defragmentation applications will neither show fragmentation information nor defragment any Ext2 volume.
* This software does not achieve booting a Windows operating system from an Ext2 volume.
* LVM volumes are not supported, so it is not possible to access them.
The most common reaction from people was that they had no idea such a thing even existed.
I know what you mean. I just recently bought a new computer from HP and found out right after it arrived that I could've got an identical computer with a touchscreen for $50 more:( I assumed they were expensive..
Or you could just use an operating system that does updates. Ubuntu apparently patched every version of pidgin that's available (even though for some reason they won't just update 2.5.9). Check out the notes.
I do have a fundamental problem with majority rule. There's no reason why one employee should have to do what the other employees want because they voted for it. I don't have a problem with the free market. Giving employees democratic power over something they don't own is not the free market.
R2-D2
Sure, he's cute, but the flaws in his design are obvious the first time he approaches anything but the shallowest of stairs. Also: He has jets, a periscope, a taser and oil canisters to make enforcer droids fall about in slapsticky fashion -- and no voice synthesizer. Imagine that design conversation: "Yes, we can afford slapstick oil and tasers, but we'll never get a 30-cent voice chip past accounting. That's just madness."
I believe his primary function is a flight droid so they were built to interface with ships. Not a lot else. John Scalzi seems to suffer from the "must have everything" school of thought and doesn't think the future will focus on minimalism and getting one thing right. Thank god he's not writing software and just another hot air blogger. I reject Episodes I, II & III so I don't know what he's talking about with the oil slick and jets.
His argument is clearly directed towards episodes I, II and III. You can't just respond to that with "na na na I can't hear you". In the context of the new Star Wars, R2-D2's lack of speech doesn't make any sense. Why would you put rockets and tazers on a droid and not put a speech synthesizer?
It actually makes perfect sense. If your customers are internet addicts, put your advertising on the internet. Of course, that ignores whether it's "internet addicts" or their families that are actually going to want this..
There are no good emulators for: Xbox, Xbox 260, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Gamecube or Wii. People are still working on them, but they're extremely complicated. Also, even if there was software that could emulate them, I doubt most computers would be able to.
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Linux Mint doesn't add anything to Gnome except a different theme.. It's really a case of the Ubuntu developers wanting it to look that way, and the Mint developers wanting a different look.
And the best part is that you can write the install CD ISO to a USB drive and install it twice as fast :)
You don't even have to disable the plugin, just install Adblock Plus. I'm sure as soon as WebGL is supported in Firefox, it will also be supported in Adblock.
No, they aren't. Gnome especially looks like shit compared to Mac and Vista. You may have a point when talking about XP or the classic windows manager, though I still prefer XP to Gnome. I haven't used KDE 4, but KDE 3 isn't much better without some -heavy- customization. And I'm no UI designer so I usually end up just screwing it up. Compiz is definitely cool, but it is ultimately useless and can be a serious resource hog. It's also very buggy, and the UI for managing it beyond "on", "light", or "off" is not very good.
Gnome's default look on my distros isn't very exciting, but some people like that. I use the dust theme on Ubuntu (the titlebars and taskbar are a dark warm gray) and I think it's nice. It's possible to make Gnome look exactly like Windows XP or Vista (I think you need compiz for the aero glass effect), although I don't know of any distro that does by default. KDE is pretty shiny by default now.
And compiz is extremely light on resources. I have Compiz running and the only time you can tell that it's using the processor is when using the cube effect (which is honestly pretty useless). For the important things that compiz does (compositing, expo effect, task thumbnails), it takes almost nothing.
That's the whole point. Windows applications should with Windows. Linux applications should fit with Linux. Just because you're used to using the Windows version doesn't mean that should be the default on every platform..
I got to Colorado State University, and our computer science department has hundreds of computers. Probably 90% are Linux (fedora), with the rest mostly being Solaris and HP-UX, a tiny number of Windows machines (maybe 5?) and then 2 Macs. I'm guessing they use Linux because we can access them from home easier and they're still usable with just the terminal.
I disagree. Firefox on Ubuntu should look like it belongs on Linux. These mockups would be horribly out of place on any Linux desktop that isn't set up to look exactly like Vista/Win7.
Instead of trying to come up with a way to decide who gets extra votes, why not just go with transferable votes, where you can either vote on issues or tranfer your vote to another person (reversible of course). That way if I know that someone else is more informed than me, I can transfer my vote to them and not bother with with the details of politics. Each representative then has their vote, plus all of their constituents votes.
It deals with the problems of underrepresentation (right now if 51% of people voted for one person, and the other 49% voted for another, the 49 group is completely unrepresented), lack of knowledge among voters (most people know nothing about politics, but at least know someone who knows more than they do), and a lot of government incompetence problems (if someone in "your party" does something you don't like, it's not "the Republican" vs "the Democrat", you can just transfer your vote to another person in your party.. although hopefully this would just destroy political parties instead, since they're not helpful).
So if you ported mono to the iPhone and then write wrote an application using it, would that count? Since .net is a Microsoft technology, mono provides a .net framework, and the application is "built on" a Microsoft technology? Just wondering..
Paying $2000 for an $800 computer and then getting the OS for $30 isn't a good deal.
But what model would give you a better answer? I would say science asks "How does the world seem to work?" vs. religion/superstition's "How do I want the world to work?" So if I want to know how things really work, is better to go on how they seem to work, or how I want them to work? Or am I missing another option?
Or you could just take the bank websites offline. I'm sure if banks thought the government was competent enough to trust with that power, they'd already have it. Even without government control of some sort of shutdown switch, I'm sure if a bank got a call from the police saying "Shut down your website now or you're going to get hacked", it would be down FAST.
And the enemy is using the net to direct weapons or reveal targets? If they're doing that, they probably already have the info (you can save information from the web), and if they take the internet down, [generic enemy] can still use the phone lines. If they're actually a threat to us (say, Russia), they would also presumably have satellites they could use for communication.
Ext2 IFS does autostart. You have to go into the control panel and tell it which drives to mount once, but after that it does it automatically every time you boot.
And how would you model the universe.. In terms of magic?
And I'm sure we all believe that they'll delete their copy of your data..
* Inodes that are larger than 128 bytes are not supported.
* Access rights are not maintained. All users can access all the directories and files of an Ext2 volume. If a new file or directory is created, it inherits all the permissions, the GID and the UID from the directory where it has been created. There is one exception to this rule: a file (but not a directory) the driver has created always has cleared "x" permissions, it inherits the "r" and the "w" permissions only. See also section "What limitations arise from not maintaining access rights?".
* The driver does not allow accessing special files at Ext2 volumes, the access will be always denied. (Special files are sockets, soft links, block devices, character devices and pipes.)
* Alternate 8.3-DOS names are not supported (just because there is no place to store them in an Ext2 file system). This can prevent legacy DOS applications, executed by the NTVDM of Windows, from accessing some files or directories.
* Currently the driver does not implement defragging support. So defragmentation applications will neither show fragmentation information nor defragment any Ext2 volume.
* This software does not achieve booting a Windows operating system from an Ext2 volume.
* LVM volumes are not supported, so it is not possible to access them.
It was quite a while ago. The only one I can find now is this: http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Category&v1=Ultra-Portable&series_name=tx2z_series
I'd say it's expensive for the size, but it's cheap for a tablet PC.
The most common reaction from people was that they had no idea such a thing even existed.
I know what you mean. I just recently bought a new computer from HP and found out right after it arrived that I could've got an identical computer with a touchscreen for $50 more :( I assumed they were expensive..
Or you could just use an operating system that does updates. Ubuntu apparently patched every version of pidgin that's available (even though for some reason they won't just update 2.5.9). Check out the notes.
I do have a fundamental problem with majority rule. There's no reason why one employee should have to do what the other employees want because they voted for it. I don't have a problem with the free market. Giving employees democratic power over something they don't own is not the free market.
R2-D2
Sure, he's cute, but the flaws in his design are obvious the first time he approaches anything but the shallowest of stairs. Also: He has jets, a periscope, a taser and oil canisters to make enforcer droids fall about in slapsticky fashion -- and no voice synthesizer. Imagine that design conversation: "Yes, we can afford slapstick oil and tasers, but we'll never get a 30-cent voice chip past accounting. That's just madness."
I believe his primary function is a flight droid so they were built to interface with ships. Not a lot else. John Scalzi seems to suffer from the "must have everything" school of thought and doesn't think the future will focus on minimalism and getting one thing right. Thank god he's not writing software and just another hot air blogger. I reject Episodes I, II & III so I don't know what he's talking about with the oil slick and jets.
His argument is clearly directed towards episodes I, II and III. You can't just respond to that with "na na na I can't hear you". In the context of the new Star Wars, R2-D2's lack of speech doesn't make any sense. Why would you put rockets and tazers on a droid and not put a speech synthesizer?
It actually makes perfect sense. If your customers are internet addicts, put your advertising on the internet. Of course, that ignores whether it's "internet addicts" or their families that are actually going to want this..
I was always taught to use words for small numbers like three and to leave it as a number for large numbers like 45.
There are no good emulators for: Xbox, Xbox 260, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Gamecube or Wii. People are still working on them, but they're extremely complicated. Also, even if there was software that could emulate them, I doubt most computers would be able to.
But does it run Linux?