I disagree. We should not be dumbing down the GUIs just because some Average Joe does not get extra enjoyment from seeing a realistic one. I greatly appreciated the whiteboards showing some believable discrete cosine mathematics in Silicon Valley.
1) LibreOffice still has the potential of royally messing up the formatting of Microsoft Office documents. It is fine if you print a recipe for mama, but my hands-on experience is that complex docs can get absolutely and completely whacked. Someone gets an Office file, modifies it with LO, sends it back. Then they receive the e-mail "hey buddy, everything looks wrong". What happens now?
2) How much of those €1M savings will be used to sponsor LibreOffice? Everyone who understands open source knows that it's not a free lunch. Extremely complex projects like this need paid developers if you want to make any meaningful progress. It's a cool 500k lines of code project.
3) Can we please hear a "status update" of these cities or governments switching to OSS? After a year or two, are they still on board? Is there a quiet switch back to Microsoft software?
But how long will PCs continue to be able to run the Starcraft binaries usably?
Pretty much forever. We can always create some kind of setups which are able to run the game successfully. Then we have Starcraft 2 of course...
And how long will Actiblizzard continue to authorize streams of Starcraft play rather than just DMCAing them for infringement of the copyright in Starcraft?
I have no idea why they would do it. The Starcraft tournaments bring enormous value to their ecosystem.
While Wikipedia is varying in quality, I'm actually glad that we have at least some kind of transparency to see who makes the various edits. I wonder what kind of manipulation or shilling has been going on with dead tree encyclopedias or history books?
Wikipedia does not ban people who repeatedly vandalise their site, over a period of years?
The other editors get so much sadistic pleasure of continuing writing the "I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions" notes that they do not want to completely ban an user.
No, it does not work like that. NAT port forwarding and UPnP allow me to let in just the specific ports to a specific host, with UPnP having the added benefit that the port is open only when the application is running.
Nooo. NAT is an incredibly practical tool to set up a poor man's firewall and to have a nice internal network behind it. Then UPnP or port forwarding is used to route incoming connections per need. Works.
I'm not about to compromise my machine my running proprietary software on it. I don't care if it's Adobe Flash or GOG's titles.
It is usually not dangerous to run proprietary software on your computer. It's not that every proprietary developer is automatically some kind of monster who wants to screw with your computer and steal all your data. Just pick your software with good taste and you will be completely fine.
I hate it too. It seems that almost no operating system has a cool-looking user interface right now. Of the available options, Ubuntu's Unity and Windows 7 look the best. Maybe GNOME3 comes after those.
Actually object oriented shell is a very smart idea. Much cleaner and more robust way to do things than just crummy parsing of text streams. Using Linux shell is like using scissors extremely carefully, while in PowerShell items just automatically drop into their respective containers. It's very relaxing.:)
At least "Windows: The Official Magazine" is doing fine. I can easily speed up my sluggish OS, and if that's not enough, I can fix any problem, and as the ace in the sleeve I can find out how to reinstall Windows in just 1 hour. Once again we can see, that if I am in the proprietary software domain, information is easily available, and my workflow is never interrupted.
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Should be no surprise to anyone who's every played a videogame: he's in "flow" mode.
How do you know that it is the same thing?
Which raises the question: how is this news for nerds?
I thought that how the brain works is quite nerdy topic. That is why I submitted this. Would you like to see less news like this in the future?
I disagree. We should not be dumbing down the GUIs just because some Average Joe does not get extra enjoyment from seeing a realistic one. I greatly appreciated the whiteboards showing some believable discrete cosine mathematics in Silicon Valley.
I have three questions.
1) LibreOffice still has the potential of royally messing up the formatting of Microsoft Office documents. It is fine if you print a recipe for mama, but my hands-on experience is that complex docs can get absolutely and completely whacked. Someone gets an Office file, modifies it with LO, sends it back. Then they receive the e-mail "hey buddy, everything looks wrong". What happens now?
2) How much of those €1M savings will be used to sponsor LibreOffice? Everyone who understands open source knows that it's not a free lunch. Extremely complex projects like this need paid developers if you want to make any meaningful progress. It's a cool 500k lines of code project.
3) Can we please hear a "status update" of these cities or governments switching to OSS? After a year or two, are they still on board? Is there a quiet switch back to Microsoft software?
But how long will PCs continue to be able to run the Starcraft binaries usably?
Pretty much forever. We can always create some kind of setups which are able to run the game successfully. Then we have Starcraft 2 of course...
And how long will Actiblizzard continue to authorize streams of Starcraft play rather than just DMCAing them for infringement of the copyright in Starcraft?
I have no idea why they would do it. The Starcraft tournaments bring enormous value to their ecosystem.
The truth is the opposite of that it would be wrong to say that it isn't true that I'm not uncomfortable processing that sentence in my brain.
While Wikipedia is varying in quality, I'm actually glad that we have at least some kind of transparency to see who makes the various edits. I wonder what kind of manipulation or shilling has been going on with dead tree encyclopedias or history books?
Wikipedia does not ban people who repeatedly vandalise their site, over a period of years?
The other editors get so much sadistic pleasure of continuing writing the "I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions" notes that they do not want to completely ban an user.
They will add a Bluetooth keyboard and essentially just rebuild the laptop.
No, it does not work like that. NAT port forwarding and UPnP allow me to let in just the specific ports to a specific host, with UPnP having the added benefit that the port is open only when the application is running.
What benefits using a real firewall would provide me?
Nooo. NAT is an incredibly practical tool to set up a poor man's firewall and to have a nice internal network behind it. Then UPnP or port forwarding is used to route incoming connections per need. Works.
I'm not about to compromise my machine my running proprietary software on it. I don't care if it's Adobe Flash or GOG's titles.
It is usually not dangerous to run proprietary software on your computer. It's not that every proprietary developer is automatically some kind of monster who wants to screw with your computer and steal all your data. Just pick your software with good taste and you will be completely fine.
I'm not sure about that. It looks like KDE 5 is adopting the flat look too.
Looks quite crusty to me.
Apparently yes. They went offline already with a "we are updating the site" message.
I hate it too. It seems that almost no operating system has a cool-looking user interface right now. Of the available options, Ubuntu's Unity and Windows 7 look the best. Maybe GNOME3 comes after those.
Why? Trident is very fast and standards-compliant engine.
Actually object oriented shell is a very smart idea. Much cleaner and more robust way to do things than just crummy parsing of text streams. Using Linux shell is like using scissors extremely carefully, while in PowerShell items just automatically drop into their respective containers. It's very relaxing. :)
If you are running ddwrt, then it's trivial to configure this. What the fuck is there to "port"?
Moron.
Just relax now, the nurse will administer the morphine soon.
I guess those incidents are also quickly swept under the rug, as it would be embarrassing for a man to admit being harassed by a woman.
True, real men use User Account Control. *wide grin*
Thanks. That one also looks a bit cleaner.
sudo echo '0.0.0.0 addthis.com' >> /etc/hosts
That would lead to a "Permission denied" error because the appending to file is done by the normal user.
Try instead: sudo sh -c "echo '0.0.0.0 addthis.com' >> /etc/hosts"
At least "Windows: The Official Magazine" is doing fine. I can easily speed up my sluggish OS, and if that's not enough, I can fix any problem, and as the ace in the sleeve I can find out how to reinstall Windows in just 1 hour. Once again we can see, that if I am in the proprietary software domain, information is easily available, and my workflow is never interrupted.
This sounds quite amazing. What's the catch?