It is even stupidly simple. It may ruin the cool apple aesthetic though.
Just make it brushed aluminum with rounded ends. Run an advertisement with white background and piano music playing in the background, with someone explaining how privacy has always been important to Apple and how this time they wanted to make it perfect. "It looks very cool, and I was amazed how simple it is. When you slide it, it snaps perfectly in place. I don't have to worry."
Nobody here wants to hear how he was part of an organized criminal scheme; they just want to seem clever by explaining how copying isn't theft.
And what if Microsoft baked in some GPL-licensed code in Windows without giving anything back? Then they would just laugh "no one loses anything, we are just making a copy". I'm sure many guys here would be pissed about that.
I don't believe that's true... my doctor told me to stop taking multivitamins because a study showed they actually lead to shorter life expectancy. After I left the office it struck me that it's more likely to be correlation - unhealthy people who don't eat right and don't exercise enough (or at all) take multivitamins to "compensate." If I'm right, those people might still be extending their lifetimes - just not as much as people who eat right and exercise.
But if the study really showed that multivitamins lead to shorter life expectancy, then those living unhealthy lifestyles would not have extended their lifetimes by taking those vitamins.
What bugs me though that if you want to uninstall an desktop environment, you cannot just uninstall the particular metapackage, but you must uninstall all the packages separately.
Not so easy gringo...fortunately there exists services like GOG.com. Download the full installer (and a heap of bonus material), archive on your favorite storage medium, own forever and play when you want.
When I recently installed a fresh Ubuntu 13.10 machine the "software updates are available" tool popped up. Its window was not visible but its icon was sitting in the taskbar. Nothing happened when I kept clicking that icon. It was completely stuck. Later the updater worked but then Ubuntu Software Center crashed when I tried to use it. I wish it was only Ubuntu, but other distros and DEs have similar bugs all the time. Windows is not always rosy either, but still I hate more the seemingly non-existent Quality Assurance of the Linux desktop.
But somehow most websites out there manage to implement Unicode just fine. Which proves that it is possible to implement good Unicode support and avoid all those bombs. Seems that Slashdot just chose the easy way out of the problems.
"Hey, there's this really great thing called Bitcoin that you should use and/or invest in. Here's some literature on it."
"Wow, it sounds cool! Who invented it?"
"Uhhhh...."
It's not that big deal. How many can name the inventor of PayPal off the top of their head, for example? Engineering is a thankless job...
Yeah, but working as an Internet server is easy. What do you need, a network card driver and some server software? That problem has been solved a long time ago and almost any OS can be used for the purpose.
Now, give me a cool, fast, usable and bug-free desktop and we will start talking.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know... although Catalyst Control Center is integrated to the Control Panel (Settings Manager or something like that) only under Linux.
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It is even stupidly simple. It may ruin the cool apple aesthetic though.
Just make it brushed aluminum with rounded ends. Run an advertisement with white background and piano music playing in the background, with someone explaining how privacy has always been important to Apple and how this time they wanted to make it perfect. "It looks very cool, and I was amazed how simple it is. When you slide it, it snaps perfectly in place. I don't have to worry."
Oh, I see it now.
But he possibly tried to work around the Slashdot Unicode limitation and then that caused the problem.
No one even thinks about some "latin1" bullshit anymore. The real problem here is (once again) the lack of Unicode support in Slashdot.
Nobody here wants to hear how he was part of an organized criminal scheme; they just want to seem clever by explaining how copying isn't theft.
And what if Microsoft baked in some GPL-licensed code in Windows without giving anything back? Then they would just laugh "no one loses anything, we are just making a copy". I'm sure many guys here would be pissed about that.
So does the value of the movie approach infinity as the resolution approaches zero?
Here's the mathematical representation: lim r->0 v(r) = inf
This. I occasionally buy preprocessed stuff too, but mostly cook my own. It tastes much better, is very easy to make, and is a fun little hobby.
I don't believe that's true... my doctor told me to stop taking multivitamins because a study showed they actually lead to shorter life expectancy. After I left the office it struck me that it's more likely to be correlation - unhealthy people who don't eat right and don't exercise enough (or at all) take multivitamins to "compensate." If I'm right, those people might still be extending their lifetimes - just not as much as people who eat right and exercise.
But if the study really showed that multivitamins lead to shorter life expectancy, then those living unhealthy lifestyles would not have extended their lifetimes by taking those vitamins.
For geeks who don't go outside and prefer the dungeon/basement lifestyle, a 1000 mg dose of Vitamin D daily can be a godsend.
You must mean 1000 IU of vitamin D. That is about a typical dose.
For vitamin D, 1 IU is the biological equivalent of 0.025 micro-grams cholecalciferol/ergocalciferol.
Even fast food has plenty of nutritional value.
What bugs me though that if you want to uninstall an desktop environment, you cannot just uninstall the particular metapackage, but you must uninstall all the packages separately.
Leaves me feeling I would be better off pirating.
Not so easy gringo...fortunately there exists services like GOG.com. Download the full installer (and a heap of bonus material), archive on your favorite storage medium, own forever and play when you want.
When I recently installed a fresh Ubuntu 13.10 machine the "software updates are available" tool popped up. Its window was not visible but its icon was sitting in the taskbar. Nothing happened when I kept clicking that icon. It was completely stuck. Later the updater worked but then Ubuntu Software Center crashed when I tried to use it. I wish it was only Ubuntu, but other distros and DEs have similar bugs all the time. Windows is not always rosy either, but still I hate more the seemingly non-existent Quality Assurance of the Linux desktop.
But somehow most websites out there manage to implement Unicode just fine. Which proves that it is possible to implement good Unicode support and avoid all those bombs. Seems that Slashdot just chose the easy way out of the problems.
Exactly! It's either 1 or 0 when talking about binary!
Microsoft Update Catalog is probably closest to what you need.
Additionally, "tasklist /svc" can be used to show which services each svchost.exe is running.
"Hey, there's this really great thing called Bitcoin that you should use and/or invest in. Here's some literature on it."
"Wow, it sounds cool! Who invented it?"
"Uhhhh...."
It's not that big deal. How many can name the inventor of PayPal off the top of their head, for example? Engineering is a thankless job...
every time she complains 'I had my icon here and now it's gone' or 'It does not behave as berfore' or 'The menu to send my mails is gone'
Ah, typical Linux desktop bugginess...
I challenge you to show me a discussion thread on Slashdot from 10+ years ago that you think was more interesting than today's stuff. Post the URL.
Yeah, but working as an Internet server is easy. What do you need, a network card driver and some server software? That problem has been solved a long time ago and almost any OS can be used for the purpose.
Now, give me a cool, fast, usable and bug-free desktop and we will start talking.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know... although Catalyst Control Center is integrated to the Control Panel (Settings Manager or something like that) only under Linux.
I left ATI (now acquired by AMD) 9 years ago. And just the other day, I find their drivers are still written in .NET.
Hahhhahhaaa... drivers written in .NET, sure... :D
One benefit to this is that people won't be trying to install this on an old piece of crap and then complaining it's slow.
I was thinking the same. When you have slightly beefier hardware, all the inefficiencies of Linux will be nicely swept under the rug.