there were kids in my middle school who cut out people's faces from class photos and inserted them in to quake or doom as different monster's faces. Needless to say, they did not come to school and shoot these people in real life.
i'm not saying that shit should go unnoticed and simply disregarded as a childhood phase, but a map of the school for a video game alone is not worthy of this kind of treatment.
along the same lines as your comment, I don't think "modern hardware" really is an issue. Sure, there are some pieces of hardware with less than stellar driver support, but there is not reason that Dell cannot sell the exact same computers they already sell, but simply throw Linux on them instead. If anything, I hope this spurs hardware manufacturers to pay attention to Linux and provide driver support (ATI, as you mentioned, is one that a lot of people would like to see better support from).
they should realize that this is a new way to make money, change their business model, and capitalize on it. They should take money from people in exchange for digg points on their story. If digg is going to turn in to what is basically all advert stories anyway, they might as well be the ones making the money, not some other parasitic "company".
more or less, IE decided to have their own standards. The biggest difference is the way in which things like offsets and thicknesses are calculated. Firefox, Opera, and Safari all render pages exactly the same (afaik). I haven't tried IE7, but from what I've read, it is much closer to being as standards compliant as Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Netscape used to always need special coding, too (refresh on browser resize comes to mind). But the absolute worst thing is that there are people out there still using old versions of browsers.
as a designer, having to code a page to be displayed in a redable manner on every single browser option out there is a pain, which is why it should be enough to code for one standard. Of course, you can always say "i'm coding for this standard, screw everyone else," but that's not always the best policy.
your post just proves why "standards compliance" should be at the top, right next to security. It's not the sole responsibilty of the developers to decide the standards, but it is their responsibility to implement them in their product.
...is not the #1 concern to web designers. From a designers point of view, all of the browsers should be focusing on standards compliance so I don't have to worry about my page being unviewable in Browser X. As a person using the web browser to surf the web, I think both security and standards compliance are equally important so I can browse the web safely and confident that I am viewing pages as they were intended to be see.
So, while I'm glad the developers see security as being a high priority, I hope all of the browser developers do not forget about standards compliance.
this is off topic from the article, sort of, but I wanted to provide a true story to further illustrate when downloading or copying is/should be 100% legal.
A friend of mine had his grandmother staying with him for whatever reason, and she decided to clean his place while he was running errands one day. Eventually, he figures out that she accidentally threw out his Windows XP cd. He still had the original product key so he decided he'd call MS up and see if they could ship him a new cd. After verifying that the key was valid and he was the rightful owner, they said it would be $50 or more (i can't remember the exact figure, but it was at least $50) + shipping to get a new disk. My friend (and I) expected a reasonable fee would be required (possibly $10 to cover the plastic and the pretty ink printing), but not a fee that was basically the same as buying a whole new Windows copy with a brand new key.
you're right, I was making a large generalization that does not fit the bill 100% of the time. There are always bottom feeders who are happy with where they are in the market and don't have any desire to compete with the top dogs. There are also "monopolies" and "oligopolies" where a few dictate the market and only let the smaller ones play because they have to. And yes, there are instances in business where it does not pay to put in the effort to shoot for number 1. Any company
As for this case, I think it is safe to assume that any mp3 player Microsoft releases is directly aimed at dethroning the iPod, therefore making it an "iPod killer". Would you argue that MS wants to coexist peacefully with Apple in the mp3 player market? How about in the PC market, where MS sees Apple gaining because of the success of their iPod?
I beg to differ. Your pharma companies example might work for the ones who produce generics, but they still say "we can sell it at a lower price to turn larger volume to profit". Other than that, pharma companies are in a race to produce BETTER drugs than the others, as well as NEW drugs that the others don't have.
I'm not sure where you were going with the oil companies, but I see synthetic oil comercials where it is obvious they are trying to show how their product is BETTER than the competition, not "as good as".
I just took my first plane trip with my laptop and I wondered the same thing while I was in the air. Since I don't have too much knowledge about the specifics, I reasoned to myself that the cellphone could create an interference much like if you place it near your speakers or car stereo or CRT monitor. At the same time, I have never experienced intereference cause by putting my laptop with bluetooth and 802.11b/g too close to my speakers/stereo/CRT Monitor.
I'm sure some one has a more scientific and exact explanation, but I think that sounds pretty logical.
the only thing "insightful" in your post is the sentence that contains "for my purposes". Your purposes are different from that vast majority of people out there. All drivers do not need Hummers, but at the same time, all drivers can not simply use a subcompact with a 1300cc engine. Many people out there have real needs for bigger trucks and vans with large engines, and as such, they are always going to be around. Also, it is natural for animals, or specifically Humans, to be competitive, so racing is never going to go away.
Also, "smug dickheads" drive all kinds of different cars, even 1300cc subcompacts. They mostly present themselves on the internet with arguments like yours or you can find them on the highway driving below the speed limit while in the passing lane.
the more fitting Family guy quote would be when Peter is about to place a VHS tape in his player and his door is busted down by a bunch for Feds that ask, "Did you get the written consent of NBC and the NFL?" To which Peter replies, "Just NBC." And the feds procede to blow away the tape.
Thats not verbatim, but pretty close to the actual events in the episode I think.
XFCE is the only one of the "big 3" that doesn't have "official" apps that Mozilla provides. It would make much more sense for Mozilla to contact the XFCE team (or vise versa) and work together to integrate Mozilla products in XFCE. I understand that Linux is all about being free to create whatever you want to, but at some point people need to say "there is already a base available, let's use it and expand it" instead of thinking the wheel needs to be reinvented from the ground up.
i don't know if there is a main, public online repository. I think that the feature is supposed to be more of a local thing where you have one system compile binaries which you can then pass along to all of your local boxes, instead of having each local box compile the same software.
if you try it, make sure to edit your make.conf accordingly: http://gentoo-wiki.com/MAN_make.conf_5
PORTAGE_BINHOST = "ftp://login:pass@grp.mirror.site/pub/grp/i686/ath lon-xp"
This is the host from which portage will grab prebuilt-binary packages. The list is a single entry specifying the full address of the directory serving the tbz2's for your system. This is only used when running with the get binary pkg options are given to emerge. Review emerge(1) for more information. Note that it should point to the 'All' directory on the host that creates the binary packages and not to the root of the PKGDIR.
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there were kids in my middle school who cut out people's faces from class photos and inserted them in to quake or doom as different monster's faces. Needless to say, they did not come to school and shoot these people in real life.
i'm not saying that shit should go unnoticed and simply disregarded as a childhood phase, but a map of the school for a video game alone is not worthy of this kind of treatment.
along the same lines as your comment, I don't think "modern hardware" really is an issue. Sure, there are some pieces of hardware with less than stellar driver support, but there is not reason that Dell cannot sell the exact same computers they already sell, but simply throw Linux on them instead. If anything, I hope this spurs hardware manufacturers to pay attention to Linux and provide driver support (ATI, as you mentioned, is one that a lot of people would like to see better support from).
they should realize that this is a new way to make money, change their business model, and capitalize on it. They should take money from people in exchange for digg points on their story. If digg is going to turn in to what is basically all advert stories anyway, they might as well be the ones making the money, not some other parasitic "company".
more or less, IE decided to have their own standards. The biggest difference is the way in which things like offsets and thicknesses are calculated. Firefox, Opera, and Safari all render pages exactly the same (afaik). I haven't tried IE7, but from what I've read, it is much closer to being as standards compliant as Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Netscape used to always need special coding, too (refresh on browser resize comes to mind). But the absolute worst thing is that there are people out there still using old versions of browsers.
as a designer, having to code a page to be displayed in a redable manner on every single browser option out there is a pain, which is why it should be enough to code for one standard. Of course, you can always say "i'm coding for this standard, screw everyone else," but that's not always the best policy.
your post just proves why "standards compliance" should be at the top, right next to security. It's not the sole responsibilty of the developers to decide the standards, but it is their responsibility to implement them in their product.
So, while I'm glad the developers see security as being a high priority, I hope all of the browser developers do not forget about standards compliance.
this is off topic from the article, sort of, but I wanted to provide a true story to further illustrate when downloading or copying is/should be 100% legal.
A friend of mine had his grandmother staying with him for whatever reason, and she decided to clean his place while he was running errands one day. Eventually, he figures out that she accidentally threw out his Windows XP cd. He still had the original product key so he decided he'd call MS up and see if they could ship him a new cd. After verifying that the key was valid and he was the rightful owner, they said it would be $50 or more (i can't remember the exact figure, but it was at least $50) + shipping to get a new disk. My friend (and I) expected a reasonable fee would be required (possibly $10 to cover the plastic and the pretty ink printing), but not a fee that was basically the same as buying a whole new Windows copy with a brand new key.
I wouldn't call this "the pot calling the kettle black", it's more like "the kettle calling the pot a kettle."
just to note, audiophiles don't buy speakers from Best Buy...not even that new section in some Best Buys that are geared towards audiophiles.
you're right, I was making a large generalization that does not fit the bill 100% of the time. There are always bottom feeders who are happy with where they are in the market and don't have any desire to compete with the top dogs. There are also "monopolies" and "oligopolies" where a few dictate the market and only let the smaller ones play because they have to. And yes, there are instances in business where it does not pay to put in the effort to shoot for number 1. Any company As for this case, I think it is safe to assume that any mp3 player Microsoft releases is directly aimed at dethroning the iPod, therefore making it an "iPod killer". Would you argue that MS wants to coexist peacefully with Apple in the mp3 player market? How about in the PC market, where MS sees Apple gaining because of the success of their iPod?
you could also describe cement as "that stuff you put in a plastic bag and huff." It seems as if more people would understand that.
I beg to differ. Your pharma companies example might work for the ones who produce generics, but they still say "we can sell it at a lower price to turn larger volume to profit". Other than that, pharma companies are in a race to produce BETTER drugs than the others, as well as NEW drugs that the others don't have.
I'm not sure where you were going with the oil companies, but I see synthetic oil comercials where it is obvious they are trying to show how their product is BETTER than the competition, not "as good as".
right. and what what company makes lofty goals of "I want to be just as good as number 1 is, so we can be friends and coexist peacefully."
I can only imagine how long a product developer would keep his job if he kept pitching ideas that were "as good as" the competition.
has been done before. I don't know if I'd ever want to deal with one.
One Key To Rule Them All...Starring the RIAA/MPAA as the All Seeing Eye and their lawyers as Dark Knights.
I feel like I've read/seen this before...
who would want 8 cores when you could have 16?
I just took my first plane trip with my laptop and I wondered the same thing while I was in the air. Since I don't have too much knowledge about the specifics, I reasoned to myself that the cellphone could create an interference much like if you place it near your speakers or car stereo or CRT monitor. At the same time, I have never experienced intereference cause by putting my laptop with bluetooth and 802.11b/g too close to my speakers/stereo/CRT Monitor.
I'm sure some one has a more scientific and exact explanation, but I think that sounds pretty logical.
the only thing "insightful" in your post is the sentence that contains "for my purposes". Your purposes are different from that vast majority of people out there. All drivers do not need Hummers, but at the same time, all drivers can not simply use a subcompact with a 1300cc engine. Many people out there have real needs for bigger trucks and vans with large engines, and as such, they are always going to be around. Also, it is natural for animals, or specifically Humans, to be competitive, so racing is never going to go away.
Also, "smug dickheads" drive all kinds of different cars, even 1300cc subcompacts. They mostly present themselves on the internet with arguments like yours or you can find them on the highway driving below the speed limit while in the passing lane.
I wonder when they'll play the "we don't pay our lawyers because pirates stole all of our money" card.
Tomorrow there will be a story about "hourly exempt" employees at Google...because no other company has had them....EVER.
the more fitting Family guy quote would be when Peter is about to place a VHS tape in his player and his door is busted down by a bunch for Feds that ask, "Did you get the written consent of NBC and the NFL?" To which Peter replies, "Just NBC." And the feds procede to blow away the tape.
Thats not verbatim, but pretty close to the actual events in the episode I think.
XFCE is the only one of the "big 3" that doesn't have "official" apps that Mozilla provides. It would make much more sense for Mozilla to contact the XFCE team (or vise versa) and work together to integrate Mozilla products in XFCE. I understand that Linux is all about being free to create whatever you want to, but at some point people need to say "there is already a base available, let's use it and expand it" instead of thinking the wheel needs to be reinvented from the ground up.
i don't know if there is a main, public online repository. I think that the feature is supposed to be more of a local thing where you have one system compile binaries which you can then pass along to all of your local boxes, instead of having each local box compile the same software. if you try it, make sure to edit your make.conf accordingly: http://gentoo-wiki.com/MAN_make.conf_5 PORTAGE_BINHOST = "ftp://login:pass@grp.mirror.site/pub/grp/i686/ath lon-xp"
This is the host from which portage will grab prebuilt-binary packages. The list is a single entry specifying the full address of the directory serving the tbz2's for your system. This is only used when running with the get binary pkg options are given to emerge. Review emerge(1) for more information. Note that it should point to the 'All' directory on the host that creates the binary packages and not to the root of the PKGDIR.