My current favourites are the £200 gold-plated oxygen-free (or whatever they are) HDMI cables that claim to give better quality... because digital signals are affected so badly by the sort of noise you get on a 1.5m cable around your TV.
Replacing things that are known to have problems and hoping it doesn't happen again is hardly unheard of with NASA though. Prior to the Columbia accident they slowly reduced the severity that they assigned to foam strikes - replacing the affected RCC panels and shrugging it off.
There's such a push to get the ISS finished before the Shuttle finally hits EOL, and as a result corners seem to be being cut far too often.
Yeah there is that... but there's also the "Disable this popup" option on the popup itself (at least with Klipper 0.9.7 on KDE 3.5.7 - ymmv with different versions), which is what I was referring to.
Ex: I am quite happy with KDE, it has worked find for me, and I can customize it to get the look and feel that I want with only one annoyance (the pop-up-annoying-box-over-task-list-and-desktop-list-whenever-you-put-a-url-in-the-clipboard-so-you-want-to-cause-great-harm-to-the-kde-devs thing...) If you're talking about Klipper, it has a option on that popup menu to disable the actions. Hardly difficult to get rid of the "annoyance" then.
Yeah, having just graduated from University we were told by a number of lecturers that Wikipedia wasn't an acceptable source for information when writing reports due to the way that it can be edited by anyone and therefore might not be entirely accurate. Of course this doesn't stop you from going to Wikipedia and looking at all the references that it cites...
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My current favourites are the £200 gold-plated oxygen-free (or whatever they are) HDMI cables that claim to give better quality... because digital signals are affected so badly by the sort of noise you get on a 1.5m cable around your TV.
Replacing things that are known to have problems and hoping it doesn't happen again is hardly unheard of with NASA though. Prior to the Columbia accident they slowly reduced the severity that they assigned to foam strikes - replacing the affected RCC panels and shrugging it off.
There's such a push to get the ISS finished before the Shuttle finally hits EOL, and as a result corners seem to be being cut far too often.
Well crappy performance from something that's crappy and used in a huge number of unsuitable situations is to be expected regardless of platform.
Yeah there is that... but there's also the "Disable this popup" option on the popup itself (at least with Klipper 0.9.7 on KDE 3.5.7 - ymmv with different versions), which is what I was referring to.
Yeah, having just graduated from University we were told by a number of lecturers that Wikipedia wasn't an acceptable source for information when writing reports due to the way that it can be edited by anyone and therefore might not be entirely accurate. Of course this doesn't stop you from going to Wikipedia and looking at all the references that it cites...