My take on this is they rushed the crippled 40 GB model to not miss the next winter holiday season and they didn't have time to complete a full software emulator (they are late with the "Home" thing too). According to that executive, they seem to exclude completely a full software emulator, but i hope they reconsider the decision, like the rumble. (=
With Sawfish, I have neither of those downsides. The only thing that now bothers me with Sawfish is that is seems to have lost the ability to focus a window, without bringing it "front", which is common with other recent window managers/desktops. Again, since I multitask, it takes me longer to "copy and paste" from, for example, a log window in a corner of the screen to an email. I think the option is still present, buried somewhere. If i'm wrong, maybe you can file a suggestion or provide a patch if you can, now that Sawfish is active again: http://sawfish.wikia.com/
I don't know what precautions the.deb package system has, but based on what I see with RPM, I'm guessing not much. None. I mean, every unofficial deb package out there on the interweb potentially could be a trojan. There was a precedent some months ago when, IIRC, a Debian developer modified a package on his personal repository that changed the user desktop background to ring a bell on the clueless people with scarily crowded apt "sources.list".
I suppose the same could be done with Gentoo, modifying an emerge script, but never used a Gentoo distribution...
P.S. for the record, i know that the packages are PGP signed and i trust my Debian Sid ^_^
See cpus for example of this not being just a software thing. My point isn't if this is an artificial market segmentation but why do you find this a bad thing or why a company wouldn't logically do it? I don't see how something can be a free market if companies are required to act against their own maximum profits because something is "Artificial."
Well, first they aren't acting in a free market, they have a monopoly, and yes, a company will always try to maximize profits, so you can't have completely free market.
For CPUs, i'm not an expert but others have suggested that are thermally tested to be clocked at different speeds, anyway dumping isn't a recent invention...
We are talking about software here, you can create the final product out of thin air with practically no marginal cost, or so low it's negligible. Try this with a tangible product. Put in the mix a market monopoly, so price isn't the result of demand and offer.
Don't you find it an artificial market segmentation?
What do you prefer, that every copy cost more than the medium priced version does now? That people who can't afford the product not be able to buy one with only the features they USE for less?
What part of "Artificially introduced market segmentation" you don't understand?
...So you know of a command line shell with the capability that, upon a few letters being typed in, can instantaneously (as-you-type) display a list of all programs, documents, emails, folders, etc. which contain those letters in their filename; all sorted by category and openable?
A few years back Gnome was using the sawfish window manager. Not only could this be configured to your hearts content, you could even write your own extensions for it. With sawfish windows could do some real magic.
I'm one of the three or four that is still using it... (=
When they adopted Metacity i wasn't very happy, but it lasted here no more than 10 minutes, Sawfish has some little bugs, but still rocks. It's the Emacs of the window managers, the last could be read as a compliment or an insult, it depends on the reader... (=
Mmh, after a brief look at the blog, i hope their use of a "tunable flux transformer" ( http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0608253 ) is only a coincidence... (=
Don't know how dumb they are, but city of Largo use thin clients. I've read somewhere the blog of one of the IT staff, last time he was testing some HP models with 3D HW accelerated support, to run Beryl, IIRC...
P.S. first hit searching "city largo beryl" with Google
In "Metal Gear Solid: Subsistence" you have the sneaking mission: one plays Snake and the others seven try to stop him. The seven are quite weak individually, if they are in a smaller number, they are progressively stronger. Who kills Snake will be the next hero. It's usually fun, until you find ladder climber...
On the other hand, I can't remember a time WinXP or various incarnations of MacOS didn't support something on the machines I was running them on. Linux works well as my server, but I got too sick of fucking around with insane shit constantly to bother with it as a main desktop, and now I use a Macbook.
I know i'm eating a troll bait here, but how many PC's have you found without windos installed in a shop?
Don't be so anal and patch-happy with mainstream packages. Big projects like Gnome and KDE already do extensive testing upstream.
You sure about that? I've read recently from an upstream Gnome developer that GTK lacks maintainers ( http://blogs.gnome.org/view/timj/2006/12/20/0 ), Etch will ship Gnome 2.14 because of unresolved GTK bugs, so what you're saying seems quite wrong...
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My take on this is they rushed the crippled 40 GB model to not miss the next winter holiday season and they didn't have time to complete a full software emulator (they are late with the "Home" thing too). According to that executive, they seem to exclude completely a full software emulator, but i hope they reconsider the decision, like the rumble. (=
Mmmh, using ESP instead of ISP?
There, fixed for you.
I think the option is still present, buried somewhere. If i'm wrong, maybe you can file a suggestion or provide a patch if you can, now that Sawfish is active again: http://sawfish.wikia.com/
I suppose the same could be done with Gentoo, modifying an emerge script, but never used a Gentoo distribution...
P.S. for the record, i know that the packages are PGP signed and i trust my Debian Sid ^_^
To me seems a programmer with windos habit:
- "Hey, i need to access the printer device, what's the admin equivalent on this lunix stuff?"
- "Err, using root maybe?"
- "Thanks!"...
See cpus for example of this not being just a software thing. My point isn't if this is an artificial market segmentation but why do you find this a bad thing or why a company wouldn't logically do it? I don't see how something can be a free market if companies are required to act against their own maximum profits because something is "Artificial."
Well, first they aren't acting in a free market, they have a monopoly, and yes, a company will always try to maximize profits, so you can't have completely free market.
For CPUs, i'm not an expert but others have suggested that are thermally tested to be clocked at different speeds, anyway dumping isn't a recent invention...
We are talking about software here, you can create the final product out of thin air with practically no marginal cost, or so low it's negligible. Try this with a tangible product. Put in the mix a market monopoly, so price isn't the result of demand and offer.
Don't you find it an artificial market segmentation?
What do you prefer, that every copy cost more than the medium priced version does now? That people who can't afford the product not be able to buy one with only the features they USE for less?
What part of "Artificially introduced market segmentation" you don't understand?
Defacements are usually done exploiting poor coded PHP applications, not exploiting Apache bugs, FWIK...
Try telling Elisha Gray that!
Try telling Antonio Meucci that!
1) IE for the mac
And for Solaris...
...So you know of a command line shell with the capability that, upon a few letters being typed in, can instantaneously (as-you-type) display a list of all programs, documents, emails, folders, etc. which contain those letters in their filename; all sorted by category and openable?
Mmh, zsh?
I bet you 5 to 1 he's working for a big corporation within the week and the debian community will continue on without him.
I suspect you cheated reading his blog... (=
Probably you aren't aware, but "debconf" (the tool) has a (working?) GTK backend, other than the "cursed" one...
A few years back Gnome was using the sawfish window manager. Not only could this be configured to your hearts content, you could even write your own extensions for it. With sawfish windows could do some real magic.
I'm one of the three or four that is still using it... (=
When they adopted Metacity i wasn't very happy, but it lasted here no more than 10 minutes, Sawfish has some little bugs, but still rocks. It's the Emacs of the window managers, the last could be read as a compliment or an insult, it depends on the reader... (=
/me looks at his old Ati 9000. At least it's fanless... (=
What is the point of putting something that looks like 8mm film on HD, BluRay, or DVD for that matter?
Err, i think this one is a remake...
Mmh, after a brief look at the blog, i hope their use of a "tunable flux transformer" ( http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0608253 ) is only a coincidence... (=
Don't know how dumb they are, but city of Largo use thin clients. I've read somewhere the blog of one of the IT staff, last time he was testing some HP models with 3D HW accelerated support, to run Beryl, IIRC...
P.S. first hit searching "city largo beryl" with Google
In "Metal Gear Solid: Subsistence" you have the sneaking mission: one plays Snake and the others seven try to stop him. The seven are quite weak individually, if they are in a smaller number, they are progressively stronger. Who kills Snake will be the next hero. It's usually fun, until you find ladder climber...
Only briefly looked at what Lessig write, for sure Henry Rollins is more "direct"... (= http://throwawayyourtv.com/2007/01/rollins-opinion -on-net-neutrality.html
On the other hand, I can't remember a time WinXP or various incarnations of MacOS didn't support something on the machines I was running them on. Linux works well as my server, but I got too sick of fucking around with insane shit constantly to bother with it as a main desktop, and now I use a Macbook.
I know i'm eating a troll bait here, but how many PC's have you found without windos installed in a shop?
Don't be so anal and patch-happy with mainstream packages. Big projects like Gnome and KDE already do extensive testing upstream.
You sure about that? I've read recently from an upstream Gnome developer that GTK lacks maintainers ( http://blogs.gnome.org/view/timj/2006/12/20/0 ), Etch will ship Gnome 2.14 because of unresolved GTK bugs, so what you're saying seems quite wrong...