Seriously, it's like some Pavlovian response: an article mentions Microsoft and everyone comes up with YACBJ: yet another crappy Ballmer joke. This time it's even worse, because there seem to be no other comments at this point.
Instead, I think we should just point everyone to his video. It's always much better for a laugh. (And yes, that's on Google's site. Consider it a touch of irony.)
I used to X with a passion when I first started using linux back in 98. Oh, man, those were the days... when you could not only X but X with a passion. [sighs wistfully]
X is not bad but perhaps Xorg sucks? Nope. Next question.
What I want to know is if they are planning on [...] adding features like sound support, Sound support is handled by a sound server, which fortunately runs independently of X.
transparent objects, You mean like compositing?
anti-aligned fonts (I think support is added now), Keep your magnet away from my monitor!
resolution changes that dont require a reboot, Resolution changes don't require a reboot, just a restart of X.
ajax/caml/dashboard or some xml and javascript support, Huh?! AJAX is for the Web, CAML is a proprietary language, so of course X.org isn't written therein, and I'm not sure in what way you mean "support for XML or Javascript" other than to say that extensions/plugins/modules (whatever the X people call them) would be significantly slower if written in these languages. Since it seems that you're "concerned" with X's bloat, I'm sure you understand why that'd be a bad idea.
I actually hope this was helpful, but if I was just the unwitting victim of flamebait, I can roll with it.
"It shouldn't be too hard to have the software do a check before a comment is posted and display a list of articles already posted that are similar to the one about to be posted. Especially if they link to the exact same site(s). A kind of "Are you sure you want to post this? This article appears to be similar to the following articles:" type of message when you preview or something."
This is exactly what digg does. However, it's system needs a lot of improvement; often you can search for something and get more results than with the dupe checker.
But yeah, the front page usually manages to miss the dupes, but the strength about digg is that you can participate (reading the stories that haven't made it to the frontpage). I've just found that doing so is tedious and pointless: A. You have to filter through said dupes. B. There are SO many stories, only a fraction of which I think are worthwhile (think Slashdot-type stories). C. There's no way to cast a negative vote. That'd be useful if the story were a dupe. As it is, you either vote or stay silent... and that's no choice!
Don't even get me started on comments, either the system or the users....
...except that duplicate stories are much more prevalent on digg than Slashdot. That and the insanely low quality of many digg stories/comments is what keeps me coming back to Slashdot. I'd like to think that digg has some promise, but I just don't. Even with its problems, Slashdot is still the better experience overall.
Anyone else notice Firefox (1.5) crashing if you keep the article loaded for a while (say, a few minutes)? I do have the Adblock extension on, but I wouldn't think that would cause it....
Good, so you're just limited to other critical exploits... and poor rendering... and being open to spyware. Seriously, I think I'm going to block AC comments.
What the world needs now, Is Unicode, sweet Unicode, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now, Is Unicode, sweet Unicode, No, not just for some but for everyone.
I first visited digg after a link to it in a Slashdot comment. I must say, I was taken by the democratic approach and the site design (aside from comments) is very nice IMO. I tried "switching" for a while; I found that most of the stories on Slashdot ended up on digg.com (and yeah, sometimes sooner). So I diligently updated my RSS feed page, submitted some stories, and dugg ones that I thought were interesting.
After a few days and much wasted time, I had seen a plethora of DUMB stories on the front page (e.g. how many things I can build with 4 bazillion legos and 3 years of my life, or this awesome 8-color JPEG image with ridiculous montage of images that somehow are supposed to resemble Episode IV), tons of duplicated stories, only a few I thought were worth reading, and no interesting feedback from other users. The comments were terrible, and it didn't seem that the +/- ratings were used at all. So now I'm back to Slashdot, where, as a nerd, I know I'll read stuff that MATTERS.
Shouldn't the article's headline read "Leaked Memo Gives Microsoft's New Direction"? I had thought this was a memo from Google that was leaked that was giving Microsoft pause. As it is, the memo is giving new direction to Microsoft. Wait... maybe that's actually it. That would explain a lot....
The more big companies get involved in forcing standards, the less the single developer at home has to say about what happens with the OS.
Similar to what Mant said, your 'single developer' is free to reject any standards and stick to something else. But in the spirit of OSS, the more eyes, the better, so it doesn't seem (all) bad to have some companies' eyes looking at Linux too. If anything, it's just a different perspective, one that could just as easily be rejected by the community as accepted. It becomes a question of merit. Sounds good to me.
I, for one, welcome our potential standard overlords. But only if they agree with my standard....;)
"It's more likely that Google is interested in him because of libgaim, which runs on Windows and supports all the major protocols."
Yes, but since libgaim is GPL'ed, changes to it would be available to all, by virtue of the license. And since libgaim is the soon-to-be-independent core of the familiar Gaim--the meat and potatoes, if you will--changes to it will propogate, no matter what new clients we see on any platform in the future. Ah, open source software....
I, for one, welcome our common core library overlords. (Damn, what a pitiful first use of that phrase.)
That every installation comes with an Allen key and crappy instructions?
I'm not targeting the OP of this comment; there are plenty of other comments like it. However, it seems like it's just a case of a bad and misleading headline--something we see a lot of on many of these e-news sites [sigh]. If you look at what it says in the article, Mr. Mickos is simply talking about large companies (yes Ikea, but also RyanAir and Virgin Mobile) that have targeted "service and innovation" (to quote the article). While one may question the quality of Ikea products, I think the point is that they're widely popular and while you could spend more money for a "better" (in one way or another) piece of furniture, many--many--are quite happy to buy from Ikea and look no further. It meets their needs and they don't need anything more. Kinda like MySQL v. Oracle... wait, this is starting to sound familiar....
(There may be holes in my chain of logic; feel free to correct.)
I'm no super-geek when it comes to Windows, but if MS were successful in their patenting of FAT, I think that would mean that hardware makers--portable music players, flash drives, etc.--would no longer be allowed to format their internal memory with FAT. Right?
If so, would they switch to something other format (other than NTFS, I'm assuming)? And if they do that, they are suddenly outside Windows' supported filesystems. And if so, wouldn't that hurt Windows or at least force them to admit that there are better filesystems out there... even ones that do not have fragmentation? GASP!
Or would the hardware companies just continue making FAT products and pay MS their royalties? It seems (sadly) that this would be the case, since most of the people buying products are using Windows.
But it also would be incredibly cool if someone rocked that boat and opened up the stage for more filesystems supported.
As for me, I'll just keep using ReiserFS on Linux. Saves me a lot of time not having to defrag....
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Seriously, it's like some Pavlovian response: an article mentions Microsoft and everyone comes up with YACBJ: yet another crappy Ballmer joke. This time it's even worse, because there seem to be no other comments at this point.
Instead, I think we should just point everyone to his video. It's always much better for a laugh. (And yes, that's on Google's site. Consider it a touch of irony.)
I used to X with a passion when I first started using linux back in 98.
Oh, man, those were the days... when you could not only X but X with a passion. [sighs wistfully]
X is not bad but perhaps Xorg sucks?
What I want to know is if they are planning on [...] adding features like sound support,Nope. Next question.
Sound support is handled by a sound server, which fortunately runs independently of X.
transparent objects,
You mean like compositing?
anti-aligned fonts (I think support is added now),
Keep your magnet away from my monitor!
resolution changes that dont require a reboot,
Resolution changes don't require a reboot, just a restart of X.
ajax/caml/dashboard or some xml and javascript support
Huh?! AJAX is for the Web, CAML is a proprietary language, so of course X.org isn't written therein, and I'm not sure in what way you mean "support for XML or Javascript" other than to say that extensions/plugins/modules (whatever the X people call them) would be significantly slower if written in these languages. Since it seems that you're "concerned" with X's bloat, I'm sure you understand why that'd be a bad idea.
I actually hope this was helpful, but if I was just the unwitting victim of flamebait, I can roll with it.
Took me a little while to find it, but here's the press release from Google:e d.html
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/twaol_expand
Would've been nice to have that linked in the summary, or at least in the CNN article. Or maybe it's just too late and I failed to see it.... O_o
"It shouldn't be too hard to have the software do a check before a comment is posted and display a list of articles already posted that are similar to the one about to be posted. Especially if they link to the exact same site(s). A kind of "Are you sure you want to post this? This article appears to be similar to the following articles:" type of message when you preview or something."
This is exactly what digg does. However, it's system needs a lot of improvement; often you can search for something and get more results than with the dupe checker.
But yeah, the front page usually manages to miss the dupes, but the strength about digg is that you can participate (reading the stories that haven't made it to the frontpage). I've just found that doing so is tedious and pointless:
A. You have to filter through said dupes.
B. There are SO many stories, only a fraction of which I think are worthwhile (think Slashdot-type stories).
C. There's no way to cast a negative vote. That'd be useful if the story were a dupe. As it is, you either vote or stay silent... and that's no choice!
Don't even get me started on comments, either the system or the users....
...except that duplicate stories are much more prevalent on digg than Slashdot. That and the insanely low quality of many digg stories/comments is what keeps me coming back to Slashdot. I'd like to think that digg has some promise, but I just don't. Even with its problems, Slashdot is still the better experience overall.
Anyone else notice Firefox (1.5) crashing if you keep the article loaded for a while (say, a few minutes)? I do have the Adblock extension on, but I wouldn't think that would cause it....
Apparently, I'm no good at using Coral. How do you view the screenshots site in Coral's cache?
Good, so you're just limited to other critical exploits... and poor rendering... and being open to spyware. Seriously, I think I'm going to block AC comments.
"The 'rsstroom reader' is a bathroom gadget that prints news feeds onto your T-P - that's right, your TOILET PAPER!"
Oh, that's right... I did hear something about MS being involved in RSS....
[everyone groans]
What the world needs now,
Is Unicode, sweet Unicode,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
What the world needs now,
Is Unicode, sweet Unicode,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
I would've expected that .xxx domains would have ended up in a worse place than Limbo... like Hell?
I can't.
I first visited digg after a link to it in a Slashdot comment. I must say, I was taken by the democratic approach and the site design (aside from comments) is very nice IMO. I tried "switching" for a while; I found that most of the stories on Slashdot ended up on digg.com (and yeah, sometimes sooner). So I diligently updated my RSS feed page, submitted some stories, and dugg ones that I thought were interesting.
After a few days and much wasted time, I had seen a plethora of DUMB stories on the front page (e.g. how many things I can build with 4 bazillion legos and 3 years of my life, or this awesome 8-color JPEG image with ridiculous montage of images that somehow are supposed to resemble Episode IV), tons of duplicated stories, only a few I thought were worth reading, and no interesting feedback from other users. The comments were terrible, and it didn't seem that the +/- ratings were used at all. So now I'm back to Slashdot, where, as a nerd, I know I'll read stuff that MATTERS.
I, for one, welcome our filtering overlords.
Shouldn't the article's headline read "Leaked Memo Gives Microsoft's New Direction"? I had thought this was a memo from Google that was leaked that was giving Microsoft pause. As it is, the memo is giving new direction to Microsoft. Wait... maybe that's actually it. That would explain a lot....
Yeah, by the title, I thought I was on Digg.com for a second....
The more big companies get involved in forcing standards, the less the single developer at home has to say about what happens with the OS.
Similar to what Mant said, your 'single developer' is free to reject any standards and stick to something else. But in the spirit of OSS, the more eyes, the better, so it doesn't seem (all) bad to have some companies' eyes looking at Linux too. If anything, it's just a different perspective, one that could just as easily be rejected by the community as accepted. It becomes a question of merit. Sounds good to me.
I, for one, welcome our potential standard overlords. But only if they agree with my standard.... ;)
Yeah, WiMAX sounds great. I'll be able to connect wherever I am! Oh wait, the site's down....
How is Apple a monopoly? I've had my video-playing IAudio X5 for months now....
"It's more likely that Google is interested in him because of libgaim, which runs on Windows and supports all the major protocols."
Yes, but since libgaim is GPL'ed, changes to it would be available to all, by virtue of the license. And since libgaim is the soon-to-be-independent core of the familiar Gaim--the meat and potatoes, if you will--changes to it will propogate, no matter what new clients we see on any platform in the future. Ah, open source software....
I, for one, welcome our common core library overlords.
(Damn, what a pitiful first use of that phrase.)
That every installation comes with an Allen key and crappy instructions?
I'm not targeting the OP of this comment; there are plenty of other comments like it. However, it seems like it's just a case of a bad and misleading headline--something we see a lot of on many of these e-news sites [sigh]. If you look at what it says in the article, Mr. Mickos is simply talking about large companies (yes Ikea, but also RyanAir and Virgin Mobile) that have targeted "service and innovation" (to quote the article). While one may question the quality of Ikea products, I think the point is that they're widely popular and while you could spend more money for a "better" (in one way or another) piece of furniture, many--many--are quite happy to buy from Ikea and look no further. It meets their needs and they don't need anything more. Kinda like MySQL v. Oracle... wait, this is starting to sound familiar....
(There may be holes in my chain of logic; feel free to correct.) I'm no super-geek when it comes to Windows, but if MS were successful in their patenting of FAT, I think that would mean that hardware makers--portable music players, flash drives, etc.--would no longer be allowed to format their internal memory with FAT. Right? If so, would they switch to something other format (other than NTFS, I'm assuming)? And if they do that, they are suddenly outside Windows' supported filesystems. And if so, wouldn't that hurt Windows or at least force them to admit that there are better filesystems out there... even ones that do not have fragmentation? GASP! Or would the hardware companies just continue making FAT products and pay MS their royalties? It seems (sadly) that this would be the case, since most of the people buying products are using Windows. But it also would be incredibly cool if someone rocked that boat and opened up the stage for more filesystems supported. As for me, I'll just keep using ReiserFS on Linux. Saves me a lot of time not having to defrag....