Well, the cowards shouldn't sign the petition; it's not like they're forced to or like petitions tend to change much. The people that changed public opinion were not anonymous, they were those willing to stand up in front of everyone - convince the world that they were generally good people - and sometimes get shot.
I wouldn't sympathize with a list of 100000 anonymous people; but one or two friends or family members could sway my opinion - and one or two friends would not be brave enough to approach their friends if they didn't have role models who were brave enough to tell the world.
My theory has long been that Microsoft hires people into these research positions to prevent them from coming up with something innovative for someone else that might disrupt their business strategy. These people are then given a decent salary to do whatever they want on whatever schedule; and as a bonus when they come up with something cool Microsoft could show it off for PR purposes (but never actually attempt to manufacture said item because it would just take away from their serious work.)
I still have the latest KDE installed, but generally I just use openbox wm + a few light tools to get what I need done. If you have a low end system a light window manager might be your best bet.
I agree this is a weakness of OS X, but I didn't complain at all about the lack of feature, but about some idiot telling us he doesn't know what he's talking about but assumes it does have it without bothering to check. (And no I'm not being hyperbolic by calling someone an idiot when he claims "OSS" has UI feature.)
Except that per application volume is a sound system feature, the UI for it is in ossmix.
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Per-application volume control is typically a sound system option; supported through Vista, Windows 7, Pulse Audio, OSS, and I assume OSX. Putting a volume control in the application itself would be redundant at this point.
Morality and ethics are not dependent on the existence of God. There is considerable philosophical debate on what things are ethical, and what the foundation of ethics is (inherent, social, etc.), but God cannot be reasonably said to be the only backing for ethics.
That said, I am under the understanding that many consider "3. It's not a good idea to destroy species; doing so may have repercussions for us" a reasonable third option.
I can't really see Keanu as having an airy sing-song voice like Wintermute was suppose to have (IIRC) I think they need one of those old mechanical speech synthesizers they built in the 1800s.
Essentially the vulnerability is a feature of the spec. Even without JavaScript or cookies, the CSS specification allows a web developer to specify that a particular icon/cursor/background-image should be shown for visited links. The exposure is that the client only downloads resources when they are needed to preserve bandwidth, and the server knows what has been requested from it, so I could put in then put somewhere in my css #google:visted { background: url("userwenttogoogle.png"); }
The problem is the only way to protect against the vulnerability is to remove features which are part of the spec (potentially breaking legitimate and standard compliant web pages), to download all resources (wasting lots of bandwidth), or putting the user in control (probably more annoying than useful as most users won't understand the dialog)
Yes, and the grandparent's post was bogus or at least dated. A lot of severe malware tends to take advantage of bugs in programs like web browsers, pdf readers, or even native apis like the GDI exploits a couple years go. You don't need execute permissions, you just need to trick the user into opening the file (for reading) by an exploitable program.
As somewhat mentioned, the only real defense is something like SELinux (or AppArmor) and they are a pain to configure - far too much of a pain for most casual users.
(Program: Firefox was recently installed, please specify the directories and ports it is allowed to access)
Light Peak uses ClearCurve to circumvent the restrictions mentioned in the above article:
"In July 2007, Corning announced a new optical fiber known as ClearCurve that uses nanostructure reflectors to keep light trapped within the fiber even when bent around small-radius curves." - Wikipedia
Very well, I was mistaken. For some reason I thought Gnome only had the top panel. (Possibly in part because I change it immediately to only have a bottom panel and haven't used a gnome desktop that I hadn't already changed in a long time)
Since that isn't the default Gnome setup, I'll point out that you can configure KDE 4 (4.2+ iirc) the same way. Put on two panels, put the task plasmoid on the bottom one, and all the other plasmoids (kmenu, clock, etc.) on the top one.
There was an online game I use to play years ago where you developed a nation and minions and attacked others etc as some sort of arch mage. They solved that problem by having 'Armageddon' every few months and starting everyone more or less over. I don't recall what it was called.
1. The shoemaker analogy is flawed. The shoemaker is not receiving just any pair of shoes for Christmas, but a particular pair of shoes that he made - and to further correct the analogy, all shoes in this world are unique.
2. Another analogy might be that the shoemaker is lending different designs of shoes to various people for testing; when the person is done testing the shoe the shoemaker wants it back. If the shoe was flawed then the person testing the shoe will destroy it, and the remains can be given to the garbage man.
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Ubuntu/Fedora do ask to be restarted after some updates. Usually this isn't required, it's just that having the person restart their whole computer is easier than explaining to them how to restart a particular process like X in the case of a video driver update.
The same can be said of Windows; it is usually just a particular service/process that needs restarted not the whole system.
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Well, the cowards shouldn't sign the petition; it's not like they're forced to or like petitions tend to change much. The people that changed public opinion were not anonymous, they were those willing to stand up in front of everyone - convince the world that they were generally good people - and sometimes get shot.
I wouldn't sympathize with a list of 100000 anonymous people; but one or two friends or family members could sway my opinion - and one or two friends would not be brave enough to approach their friends if they didn't have role models who were brave enough to tell the world.
My theory has long been that Microsoft hires people into these research positions to prevent them from coming up with something innovative for someone else that might disrupt their business strategy. These people are then given a decent salary to do whatever they want on whatever schedule; and as a bonus when they come up with something cool Microsoft could show it off for PR purposes (but never actually attempt to manufacture said item because it would just take away from their serious work.)
... I think the verb you are looking for is 'see' Blind people are quite capable of walking.
Interesting timing on this story. KDE 4.5 beta 2 was released today.
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-beta2.php for the official announcement
I still have the latest KDE installed, but generally I just use openbox wm + a few light tools to get what I need done. If you have a low end system a light window manager might be your best bet.
I agree this is a weakness of OS X, but I didn't complain at all about the lack of feature, but about some idiot telling us he doesn't know what he's talking about but assumes it does have it without bothering to check. (And no I'm not being hyperbolic by calling someone an idiot when he claims "OSS" has UI feature.)
Except that per application volume is a sound system feature, the UI for it is in ossmix.
Per-application volume control is typically a sound system option; supported through Vista, Windows 7, Pulse Audio, OSS, and I assume OSX. Putting a volume control in the application itself would be redundant at this point.
Morality and ethics are not dependent on the existence of God. There is considerable philosophical debate on what things are ethical, and what the foundation of ethics is (inherent, social, etc.), but God cannot be reasonably said to be the only backing for ethics.
That said, I am under the understanding that many consider "3. It's not a good idea to destroy species; doing so may have repercussions for us" a reasonable third option.
I can't really see Keanu as having an airy sing-song voice like Wintermute was suppose to have (IIRC) I think they need one of those old mechanical speech synthesizers they built in the 1800s.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ieinternals/archive/2009/06/17/CSSHistoryProbing.aspx is an article on the subject.
Essentially the vulnerability is a feature of the spec. Even without JavaScript or cookies, the CSS specification allows a web developer to specify that a particular icon/cursor/background-image should be shown for visited links. The exposure is that the client only downloads resources when they are needed to preserve bandwidth, and the server knows what has been requested from it, so I could put in then put somewhere in my css #google:visted { background: url("userwenttogoogle.png"); }
The problem is the only way to protect against the vulnerability is to remove features which are part of the spec (potentially breaking legitimate and standard compliant web pages), to download all resources (wasting lots of bandwidth), or putting the user in control (probably more annoying than useful as most users won't understand the dialog)
http://www.wolfire.com/humble They keep a running tally of the number of sales on the front page... it's 61606 as I post.
Yes, and the grandparent's post was bogus or at least dated. A lot of severe malware tends to take advantage of bugs in programs like web browsers, pdf readers, or even native apis like the GDI exploits a couple years go. You don't need execute permissions, you just need to trick the user into opening the file (for reading) by an exploitable program.
As somewhat mentioned, the only real defense is something like SELinux (or AppArmor) and they are a pain to configure - far too much of a pain for most casual users.
(Program: Firefox was recently installed, please specify the directories and ports it is allowed to access)
The plan is to include a copper wire along with the optical wire for powering devices.
It is sorta mentioned here: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-346181.html
Light Peak uses ClearCurve to circumvent the restrictions mentioned in the above article:
"In July 2007, Corning announced a new optical fiber known as ClearCurve that uses nanostructure reflectors to keep light trapped within the fiber even when bent around small-radius curves." - Wikipedia
(Notice your article is from 2006)
(You do understand that) you're spreading FUD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Local_Address
Very well, I was mistaken. For some reason I thought Gnome only had the top panel. (Possibly in part because I change it immediately to only have a bottom panel and haven't used a gnome desktop that I hadn't already changed in a long time)
Since that isn't the default Gnome setup, I'll point out that you can configure KDE 4 (4.2+ iirc) the same way. Put on two panels, put the task plasmoid on the bottom one, and all the other plasmoids (kmenu, clock, etc.) on the top one.
http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_linux Probably helps the cause too. Phoronix has posted a new article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE3Mw
Seems to have been called Arch Mage (I played in 1999-2000). Apparently it still exists as 'The Reincarnation' http://www.the-reincarnation.com/
There was an online game I use to play years ago where you developed a nation and minions and attacked others etc as some sort of arch mage. They solved that problem by having 'Armageddon' every few months and starting everyone more or less over. I don't recall what it was called.
With pleasure.
1. The shoemaker analogy is flawed. The shoemaker is not receiving just any pair of shoes for Christmas, but a particular pair of shoes that he made - and to further correct the analogy, all shoes in this world are unique.
2. Another analogy might be that the shoemaker is lending different designs of shoes to various people for testing; when the person is done testing the shoe the shoemaker wants it back. If the shoe was flawed then the person testing the shoe will destroy it, and the remains can be given to the garbage man.
Ubuntu/Fedora do ask to be restarted after some updates. Usually this isn't required, it's just that having the person restart their whole computer is easier than explaining to them how to restart a particular process like X in the case of a video driver update.
The same can be said of Windows; it is usually just a particular service/process that needs restarted not the whole system.
Lies, you need Direct2D support, which has only existed since Vista; so you need a computer sold in the last 4-5 years.
"If you're doing something you don't want people to know about - STOP DOING IT!"
- sounds like the antithesis to freedom... just saying.
You may be using irony, but enough people are confused by that expression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_one's_cake_and_eat_it_too