What will we do? We'll probably just use it as a way to rationalize pirating all those old games. After all, they're not copyrighted, they're "abandonware"!
1: Confusing filesystem heirarchy! Where do binaries live? Is it/bin/sbin/usr/bin/usr/sbin/usr/local/bin/usr/X11R6/bin or/opt? What's the difference between/etc and/usr/etc? Between/lib/usr/lib/usr/local/lib and/usr/X11R6/lib?
2: Paloelithic cut-and-paste functionality. You *still* can't copy images (or anything other than plain text) between two apps.
3: That #$^!#^&^%#%& GTK+ file selector. Please, someone put that thing out of it's misery!
4: Zealots
5: Lack of developer interest in ease-of-use issues
Front: The words "I designed this lousy T-shirt and all I got was $75 in pretend money" in slashdot green with a white outline
Back: All the official rules, in slashdot green 10 point Courier, with the paragraph "This Contest is for United States residents only. Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest. Void in the U.S. Virgin Islands and U.S. military installations." In white 12-point Courier bold.
Alternate design: Black text on white shirt 1) Design new/. t-shirt 2) Assign and irrovokably transfer my work to Taco's lawyers 3) ??? 4) PROFIT!!!1
It's a desktop environment. Everything you can find in KDE or GNOME also exists within Emacs: web browsers, email and newsgroup readers, IM and IRC chat clients, etc. Emacs brings it's users the best of all worlds. It combines the manic complexity of KDE with the rugged good looks of Motif, the committed (or should be committed, maybe!) fan base of Amiga and MacOS and the intuitive ease-of-use of a 4-manual pipe organ! What's there not to love?
Back on the topic, Dashboard looks like a neat peice of code.
New GTK file-save box -- much-needed upgrade but no way to access.(dot)files? Sure, it's much cleaner when they're hidden, but it meant I had to type in a filename five levels deep just to point my program to it.
You don't *have* to type the whole path. Type the first few letters in the file name field (eg. ".gno") and hit tab. All the files starting with ".gno" will be shown in the right pane, and the matching directories will be shown in the left pane. From there you can navigate through folders with the mouse as normal. You can even type "." then tab, and have all your hidden files and folders in the list.
As for float-on-top, good riddance! Modal dialogs are a nuisance anyway. I agree with you about Epiphany, though.
The problem with that is, a lot of the "bloat" is the code that lets Mozilla render the last 10% of the web that Konqueror chokes on.
LDAP servers are large and complicated
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They don't use LDAP for the same reason (most) people don't use SQL databases to organize their MP3 collection. It's like killing mosquitos with a tactical nuke!
Perhaps not having his relatives arrested for crimes committed 20 years ago and in another province! This article would make me rather wary about giving DNA samples even if I was innocent of the crime in question.
Where were *you* on the night of Nov. 30, 1983? We have DNA evidence linking you or a close relative to a crime committed that night. What's your alabi?
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The same. (verified with gnumeric 1.1.19) I disagree that it is an Excel clone though.
Physical barriers between the pilots and passengers are just a feel-good measure. All a terrorist has to do is start killing hostages, and the pilots will open the door. Only a robot or a sociopath could remain locked in the cockpit listening to a vivid description over the intercom of the flight attendants being flayed with a box-cutter!
The only way to prevent this kind of attack (other than hiring hardened killers as pilots) is to lock the cockpit door from outside the aircraft, and keep the pilots locked inside for the duration of the flight. That wouldn't be very popular with the pilots, since it would prevent them from escaping from a crashed plane, or getting coffee or taking a bathroom break in flight.
But how do you index flash content? How do you google for something cool you saw in a flash-based site? How do you bookmark one page within a flash interface? Can I skip that #$%^#% intro animation?
Until flash has better answers for those questions than "It can't be done" "but why would you want to?" and "the content creators want you to see that animation", I'll take html, thanks.
Copyright infringment is not theft. No legal decision has ever equated illegal copying with stealing.
The copyright industry works hard to maintain the copying=stealing connection, it's good for PR, but they have no legal basis for that claim. Copyright infringment is illegal, but it is not theft; a lot of people in this debate lose sight of that.
...and watch less Star Trek. Then you would probably at least be able to spell "illiterate"!
Anyway, books like the Harry Potter series are an escape from the mundane world. If you don't like kids reading about magic to get their escapism in, maybe you should write some good engaging hard-sci-fi stories that appeal to kids the same age as H.P. fans.
Maybe if there were one store in this universe that would accept returned CDs, that would work. As it is, you get another copy of the same (crippled) album, or you get escorted out by mall security.
A, if not the, big problem with open source development is that it's not good at fixing usability problems. Too few developers read Bruce Tognazzini, or know who Susan Kare is. They think "user friendly" means "has skins".
Openoffice is ugly. That's just a given. That does NOT imply that all open-source projects are unusable and poorly designed. Try a recent version of Gnome, you'll be pleasantly surprised by how well the apps follow a consistent human interface guide. If you report UI stupidity as a bug on a gnome project, it will be fixed.
You can rip on OpenOffice all you want, but please educate yourself a little before you assume all open-source projects are the same. (Or don't, it probably won't get you a "+5, Insightful" on slashdot nearly as fast.)
The Linux kernel is found to be a willful violation of SCO's UNIX copyright. In the US, the statutory penalty for willful infringment of copyright is $150,000US per infringment (in this case, every installed Linux kernel would be an infringment) Suddenly, the business community owes SCO $150,000 per Linux server. Most home users owe more than their life's savings. Many will go bankrupt. Google (with 10s of thousands of Linux machines in it's data center) disappears in a puff of debt. Redhat, and any other US-based distros are responsible for several million infringments each, and are liquidated to pay a small fraction of the fine. People and companies in nations that have "harmonized" their copyright laws with the US (poor fools!) are subjected to the same treatment. SCO will continue to prosecute Linux developers and users around the world.
End result: By 2008, SCO and their lawyers own 34% or the world's wealth. They buy IBM, Sun, SGI and Microsoft, fire the R&D teams, and start collecting "licensing fees" on their new-found patent portfolio. In 2012, the last independent business in the world sells to SCO to settle a $428,997,646,251US patent/copyright/trademark infringment suit. SCO now owns 84% of the world's wealth. In 2016, SCO test-detonates a nuclear weapon. France surrenders. In a series of hostile takeovers, SCO strongarms its way into the UN security council. By now most permanent UNSC member governments are subsidiaries of SCO. 2032: SCO disbands the UN, and renames it's constituent nations "branch offices". The head of SCO's official title is changed from "President and CEO" to "Emperor of Earth". Members of the board are granted heredetary feifdoms and titles. By 2045 the entire world's economy has reverted back to subsistence agriculture, since it is the only economic activity SCO doesn't have patents on. Starvation and economic stagnation take their toll, hundreds of millions of people starve, and a billion more die in wars that break out all over the earth. The entire world sinks into another dark age.
I've been looking at these for a car computer (for mp3/ogg playing, GPS navigation, etc) Most of it is supported. The VIA castlerock display drivers are in CVS versions of Xfree, and everything else was supported by existing drivers IIRC. The only unsupported part is the hardware MPEG2 decoder in the M-series boards. Unfortunately the CPUs aren't powerful enough to play back DVD resolution MPEG-2 in software so they are pretty useless as embedded DVD players.
What do you expect from a group that holds every other aspect of the US government in contempt?:)
You also have to remember that most of us on/. were born well after the moon landings. The only NASA we have ever seen is the bumbling, marginally competent bunch that loses space shuttles, doesn't dare send astronauts beyond low earth orbit, and is decades behind on the ISS!
Disclaimer: I don't think the moon landings were faked. Don't flame me for being an idiot.
I guess thats what happens when you fail to innovate. I wonder what'll happen to Unisys...?
Rumour has it that they'll claim unspecified intellectual property has been incorporated into Linux, and sue IBM. Look for a few dozen/. articles about it in the next few weeks.
write a program that takes the digital audio data just prior to it going to the DAC. This will require someone reverse engineering a part of the audio driver in the OS du jour.
There are dummy sound drivers available that do this now. The problem is MS driver signing. Windows 2000 checked for digital signatures on drivers. WinXP spews dire-sounding warnings if you try to install unsigned drivers. Who wants to bet that windows media player n+1 will refuse to play DRMed content through unsigned video and sound drivers? The infrastructure is there now, all it takes is a few lines of code in WMP.
Sure, it'll still work on open platforms like Linux, but what's the point if nobody even releases DRM-enabled media players for it.
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What will we do? We'll probably just use it as a way to rationalize pirating all those old games. After all, they're not copyrighted, they're "abandonware"!
1: Confusing filesystem heirarchy! Where do binaries live? Is it /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin or /opt? What's the difference between /etc and /usr/etc? Between /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib?
2: Paloelithic cut-and-paste functionality. You *still* can't copy images (or anything other than plain text) between two apps.
3: That #$^!#^&^%#%& GTK+ file selector. Please, someone put that thing out of it's misery!
4: Zealots
5: Lack of developer interest in ease-of-use issues
Black shirt design:
/. t-shirt
Front: The words "I designed this lousy T-shirt and all I got was $75 in pretend money" in slashdot green with a white outline
Back: All the official rules, in slashdot green 10 point Courier, with the paragraph "This Contest is for United States residents only. Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest. Void in the U.S. Virgin Islands and U.S. military installations." In white 12-point Courier bold.
Alternate design: Black text on white shirt
1) Design new
2) Assign and irrovokably transfer my work to Taco's lawyers
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!1
It's a desktop environment. Everything you can find in KDE or GNOME also exists within Emacs: web browsers, email and newsgroup readers, IM and IRC chat clients, etc. Emacs brings it's users the best of all worlds. It combines the manic complexity of KDE with the rugged good looks of Motif, the committed (or should be committed, maybe!) fan base of Amiga and MacOS and the intuitive ease-of-use of a 4-manual pipe organ! What's there not to love?
Back on the topic, Dashboard looks like a neat peice of code.
New GTK file-save box -- much-needed upgrade but no way to access .(dot)files? Sure, it's much cleaner when they're hidden, but it meant I had to type in a filename five levels deep just to point my program to it.
You don't *have* to type the whole path. Type the first few letters in the file name field (eg. ".gno") and hit tab. All the files starting with ".gno" will be shown in the right pane, and the matching directories will be shown in the left pane. From there you can navigate through folders with the mouse as normal. You can even type "." then tab, and have all your hidden files and folders in the list.
As for float-on-top, good riddance! Modal dialogs are a nuisance anyway. I agree with you about Epiphany, though.
The problem with that is, a lot of the "bloat" is the code that lets Mozilla render the last 10% of the web that Konqueror chokes on.
They don't use LDAP for the same reason (most) people don't use SQL databases to organize their MP3 collection. It's like killing mosquitos with a tactical nuke!
Perhaps not having his relatives arrested for crimes committed 20 years ago and in another province! This article would make me rather wary about giving DNA samples even if I was innocent of the crime in question.
Where were *you* on the night of Nov. 30, 1983? We have DNA evidence linking you or a close relative to a crime committed that night. What's your alabi?
The same. (verified with gnumeric 1.1.19)
I disagree that it is an Excel clone though.
Physical barriers between the pilots and passengers are just a feel-good measure. All a terrorist has to do is start killing hostages, and the pilots will open the door. Only a robot or a sociopath could remain locked in the cockpit listening to a vivid description over the intercom of the flight attendants being flayed with a box-cutter!
The only way to prevent this kind of attack (other than hiring hardened killers as pilots) is to lock the cockpit door from outside the aircraft, and keep the pilots locked inside for the duration of the flight. That wouldn't be very popular with the pilots, since it would prevent them from escaping from a crashed plane, or getting coffee or taking a bathroom break in flight.
But how do you index flash content? How do you google for something cool you saw in a flash-based site? How do you bookmark one page within a flash interface? Can I skip that #$%^#% intro animation?
Until flash has better answers for those questions than "It can't be done" "but why would you want to?" and "the content creators want you to see that animation", I'll take html, thanks.
I didn't say it was good or bad, just that we shouldn't be surprised by this.
Isn't that the whole point of capitalism?
... it would make about as much sense!
Copyright infringment is not theft. No legal decision has ever equated illegal copying with stealing.
The copyright industry works hard to maintain the copying=stealing connection, it's good for PR, but they have no legal basis for that claim. Copyright infringment is illegal, but it is not theft; a lot of people in this debate lose sight of that.
...and watch less Star Trek. Then you would probably at least be able to spell "illiterate"!
Anyway, books like the Harry Potter series are an escape from the mundane world. If you don't like kids reading about magic to get their escapism in, maybe you should write some good engaging hard-sci-fi stories that appeal to kids the same age as H.P. fans.
Maybe if there were one store in this universe that would accept returned CDs, that would work. As it is, you get another copy of the same (crippled) album, or you get escorted out by mall security.
A, if not the, big problem with open source development is that it's not good at fixing usability problems. Too few developers read Bruce Tognazzini, or know who Susan Kare is. They think "user friendly" means "has skins".
Openoffice is ugly. That's just a given. That does NOT imply that all open-source projects are unusable and poorly designed. Try a recent version of Gnome, you'll be pleasantly surprised by how well the apps follow a consistent human interface guide. If you report UI stupidity as a bug on a gnome project, it will be fixed.
You can rip on OpenOffice all you want, but please educate yourself a little before you assume all open-source projects are the same. (Or don't, it probably won't get you a "+5, Insightful" on slashdot nearly as fast.)
You think that law would ever apply to individuals?
Silly rabbit! Special rights are for multinational corporations!
Assume the worst case: SCO wins hands-down
:D
The Linux kernel is found to be a willful violation of SCO's UNIX copyright. In the US, the statutory penalty for willful infringment of copyright is $150,000US per infringment (in this case, every installed Linux kernel would be an infringment) Suddenly, the business community owes SCO $150,000 per Linux server. Most home users owe more than their life's savings. Many will go bankrupt. Google (with 10s of thousands of Linux machines in it's data center) disappears in a puff of debt. Redhat, and any other US-based distros are responsible for several million infringments each, and are liquidated to pay a small fraction of the fine. People and companies in nations that have "harmonized" their copyright laws with the US (poor fools!) are subjected to the same treatment. SCO will continue to prosecute Linux developers and users around the world.
End result: By 2008, SCO and their lawyers own 34% or the world's wealth. They buy IBM, Sun, SGI and Microsoft, fire the R&D teams, and start collecting "licensing fees" on their new-found patent portfolio. In 2012, the last independent business in the world sells to SCO to settle a $428,997,646,251US patent/copyright/trademark infringment suit. SCO now owns 84% of the world's wealth. In 2016, SCO test-detonates a nuclear weapon. France surrenders. In a series of hostile takeovers, SCO strongarms its way into the UN security council. By now most permanent UNSC member governments are subsidiaries of SCO. 2032: SCO disbands the UN, and renames it's constituent nations "branch offices". The head of SCO's official title is changed from "President and CEO" to "Emperor of Earth". Members of the board are granted heredetary feifdoms and titles. By 2045 the entire world's economy has reverted back to subsistence agriculture, since it is the only economic activity SCO doesn't have patents on. Starvation and economic stagnation take their toll, hundreds of millions of people starve, and a billion more die in wars that break out all over the earth. The entire world sinks into another dark age.
Still think it's harmless to let SCO win?
I've been looking at these for a car computer (for mp3/ogg playing, GPS navigation, etc) Most of it is supported. The VIA castlerock display drivers are in CVS versions of Xfree, and everything else was supported by existing drivers IIRC. The only unsupported part is the hardware MPEG2 decoder in the M-series boards. Unfortunately the CPUs aren't powerful enough to play back DVD resolution MPEG-2 in software so they are pretty useless as embedded DVD players.
consistently been able to feed its population
How would you know? It's not like we've ever tried...
What do you expect from a group that holds every other aspect of the US government in contempt? :)
/. were born well after the moon landings. The only NASA we have ever seen is the bumbling, marginally competent bunch that loses space shuttles, doesn't dare send astronauts beyond low earth orbit, and is decades behind on the ISS!
You also have to remember that most of us on
Disclaimer: I don't think the moon landings were faked. Don't flame me for being an idiot.
Freecraft should have seen this coming! What else could they possibly expect from the company that thinks they own the word "Diablo"?
I guess thats what happens when you fail to innovate. I wonder what'll happen to Unisys...?
/. articles about it in the next few weeks.
Rumour has it that they'll claim unspecified intellectual property has been incorporated into Linux, and sue IBM. Look for a few dozen
write a program that takes the digital audio data just prior to it going to the DAC. This will require someone reverse engineering a part of the audio driver in the OS du jour.
There are dummy sound drivers available that do this now. The problem is MS driver signing. Windows 2000 checked for digital signatures on drivers. WinXP spews dire-sounding warnings if you try to install unsigned drivers. Who wants to bet that windows media player n+1 will refuse to play DRMed content through unsigned video and sound drivers? The infrastructure is there now, all it takes is a few lines of code in WMP.
Sure, it'll still work on open platforms like Linux, but what's the point if nobody even releases DRM-enabled media players for it.