Higher O2 content makes you age FASTER. In fact, environments with much higher O2 level than normal are poisonous for humans and animals. O2 is just as poisonous as any other gas.
BTW, you can not burn oxygen; the process of burning something means that something gets in reaction with oxygen. Thus, oxygen doesn't get in reaction with oxygen, right?
I could be wrong, though...
Awesomebar works fine for me. And it _is_ more inteligent.
But finally... there are people who can keep up with new and innovative things, and there are others who can't.
Since when "Unbundle WMP from Windows" is so much unreasonable?
personal vendetta against MS ? A think the EU requires ALL operating system manufacturers to stop bundling different products into their OS. - Oh, wait... WHAT other operating system manufacturers are we talking about? There is only Microsoft on the scene. Looks like monopoly to me...
kid runs unauthorized application, is told not to, disobeys instructions
If the student's work assignment requires a browser, how on earth could a browser be an unauthorized application?
See, here is the major problem, a problem of the educational system itself. It doesn't teach you to create a drawing, a text document, a chart, a spreadcheet (insert your favorite document type here), instead it tries to teach you AutoCAD, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, etc. And even worse: only specific versions of these programs, so when you're out of school you don't know word processing, you don't know spreadsheets, you only know Word and Excel, and IE - to stay with the article. It is like a kid from the kindergarten is told to use only a pencil from a specific vendor, instead of leaving to choose a pencil of your liking.
This is fucking insane. The poor kids are thought only to listen to what they are told to do, and then execute the "order". Do not even blink an eye!
I just saw a movie not so long ago, titled "Idiocracy". It is about the world becoming so dumb that economics just falls apart. The story is set in the US. Looks like the US is heading in that direction. It is worth watching that movie, it gives an insight into the future.
Or are we there already? How can people be such stupid to not understand that the whole US patent system as it is today is such a huge pile of crap. Something must change: or the US patent system, or big corporation's headquarters location.
You should be able to patent ONLY specific implementations of ideas, not the idea itself. Its totally crap. Crap, crap, crap.
With all these internal errors on Slashdot, apparently those dear little asstunnels got Slashdot too.
Holy crap! They're in my kitchen already! Eating up all my tuna! F*** you! F*** you again! F*** you again and again and again!
Maybe with an advice like this, they would have greater success in stopping spread this package of embarrassment:
so here's bit of advice to you guys: F*** you! F*** you again! F*** you again and again and again! Or not. But who cares. What was the name of this asstunnel company anyway?
I am not an expert of either of the licenses, but from where I'm standing I see this way. Let us see an analogy.
1.) Let us say that you are a cook. You invent a fantastic new pie recipe and you are kind to share your recipe with others. So you put your recipe in the window along with an agreement which says that if you take the recipe you can do anything you like with it as long as you keep the original author's name mentioned and automatically accept that agreement. And further on, you HAVE TO make available the recipe to anybody - modified or not - as long as you keep the name of the author AND the agreement. This way anyone taking your recipe will accept the agreement too. This is the GPL license way.
2.) The BSD license way than would be this. You put the recipe in the window with a different agreement that says you can take the recipe, do whatever you want with it as long as you mention the original authors name AND you CAN give it away IF you want it.
In the first case you are bound by the agreement that you HAVE TO make available the recipe, in any form - modified or not -, along with agreement, and anyone who takes it automatically accepts the agreement too, and will be bound by it just as you were and so on.
In the second case you can just modify the recipe and make it a lot better, put the recipe in a safe and lock it up, then open a small restaurant and make a hell lot of money with it. Without you ever being required to make your recipe publicly available.
Bottom line. If you create a recipe and put it in the window the BSD way by yourself, knowing what the BSD license is about, then complain about someone taken it, modified it and got rich using it, and not sharing the modifications with you or anybody else, that I think makes you a funny person, to say the least.
It would be helpful if those classes in HS/College that teach you "Business Skills" or "Typing" didn't just teach a software application, but actually taught you about the tools and approaches in general so that the end-user had a good feel for what tasks can be automated/assisted by commonly available software.
THIS is the main starting point. You're absolutely right about that. Anyone, who finishes the school should have a basic knowledge about what WORD PROCESSING (NOT MS Word, NOT OO Writer, or any other specific program for that matter), SPREADSHEETS (NOT MS Excel, NOT OO Calc, etc.), PRESENTATIONS (same goes here as for the others) etc. are.
Schools should teach the concepts of these applications, not a specific application or (if we are lucky) two. If you're thinking that that cannot be done without a specific application, because you need one to exercise what you learn, you're right, but in this case let the teachers show the trainees at least two applications, for they can see the differences and similarities between the same operation done by both applications.
This way people would know the concepts of such tasks, not the menu items or shortcut-key combinations which do a specific operation in MS Word or OO Writer, respectively. But at the moment schools are teaching MS Word and not WORD PROCESSING in general. This is the main issue here. This is why people need training to work with OO or other office suites, because they only know that if I click this menu item in Word, page numbers will appear on the bottom of each page (this in an optimistic case, when someone actually doesn't start to write numbers by hand on each page's bottom).
My opinion is that this knowledge should be necessary to terminate a school with success nowadays. If you can't operate a computer at least this level (creating formatted text documents, etc.) is equivalent to not be able to write and read twentyfive years ago. This is just very sad.
I like Pidgin because it's available on the platforms I use (these would be Linux and Windows), it has support for
the protocols I use (and a shitload of other protocols which I don't use, but I could if I wanted to). Most people say that it lacks video/audio support and they're right, but I'm not really interested in these two features, so this doesn't make a difference.
The thing which I doesn't like about Pidgin is that it forces simplicity at a point where I almost could say that it's a proof of concept application. Everything is minimalist about Pidgin, the last thing that made it a little bit nicer was that the buddy images now have rounded corners and your image is shown up next to the status switcher dropdown.
Pidgin could've been so much more appealing if the developers wanted to, but no, there is almost no control about how the buddy-list looks-like, not even color themes or something.
It may seam that I'm bashing Pidgin, but take a look at Adium, for example. It has lots of ways to customize the interface and how it works AND it looks nice, it is visually appealing. I know that Pidgin can be themed using GTK themes, but you can't theme ONLY Pidgin to be different from the rest of your apps on the desktop.
So, I'm basically proposing for somebody who has the capability and time to think about, and come up with a new "front-end" for libpurple, like Adium did, and create a new IM client which IS NICE and CAN BE CUSTOMIZED. It would be a different team for the user interface (the front end) and the pidgin team for the back-end (libpurple) which could work in collaboration.
Maybe I am too utopist but now, when the desktop eye-candy is becoming more popular, we should have a nicer IM client too.
Please note that eye-candy does not need to be obtrusive, and CAN help usability too.
Let's say a guy with a decent job in America (the US) is downloading movies using BitTorrent software. The thing is that this way he gets the movie for free, he only pays for internet connection, which he would pay already. A recent movie release in the US is something between $10 and $40 (I'm not a US citizen, so I looked at WalMart's prices). What is the average monthly sallary for an average guy? $2500 to $5000? http://www.worldsalaries.org/usa.shtml In all cases is more than $1000 a month. For a quick calculation let us assume the salary is $3000. From this amount of money he could get 120 DVD releases, calculating with an average $25 per DVD.
Let's take a look at a Romanian (I'm from here) guy with decent job and salary. The average monthly salary is somewhere around $300. The average price for a DVD release (which is quite old compared to the new releases in the US, because here, the new releases come after 5-6 months) is $20. Now it's easy math, the Romanian guy could buy 15 DVD releases, which aren't even the newest ones.
I know these calculations are vague, to say the least, because one doesn't spend his whole salary to buy DVDs, but also think that stuff like clothes, consumer electronics, etc. cost more than in the US. Only food is a little bit cheaper or at the same price as in the US.
Also think of that the internet has "opened the eyes" of people living in poor countries for what they "could" buy, what is available on the international market, and those people are willing to have those stuff too, but their financial status doesn't allow them.
My point is that the market isn't fair, why (and how) should a poor country's citizen pay almost the same price for a product as a rich country's citizen for the product which is not even the newest.
if the recipients are all prepared to receive those bytes at the same time
You are totally right that the recipients will want those bytes at different times, BUT this is not like current television or radio broadcasts, where once broad casted they no longer exist. The data which is intended to be broad casted (in the example, an Olympic event) is stored at the same time it is broad casted and not only by the producer or creator of the data, but by every other party (or at least the proxy-like ones) who is receiving the data. It's a bit like BitTorrent: the more interested in getting the data, the more available sources to get from as the transfer progresses in time. It's kind of like cashing today: for some amount of time the data chunks will get cashed on multiple locations (where they go trough) and this way the data itself "lives" longer. The more clients request the data, the data itself will be available from multiple locations, and you get it faster when you ask for it.
And if you're thinking that this way there will be stored redundant information on a horrible amount of locations and this means an even more horrible quantity of stored data, then you're wrong. This way the cached data remains in cache only if there is interest for it, and if there isn't then after some time it gets replaced by something new, which has a much more interest for.
This whole idea is very similar to what BitTorrent is, just even more decentralized, and in order to work the needed protocols and tools need to be implemented.
And the good thing is this whole stuff could run on the back of existing TCP/IP architecture.
WGA is supposed to stop piracy WGA is supposed to look like it's trying to stop piracy, but instead it just spies upon you. That's why people complain about it.
Although I like open source apps, I used to chose them over commercial ones if there are equally useful as they commercial counterparts. Sadly there is not so much of these kind of apps. For example let's compare Photoshop and GIMP. Maybe GIMP is good enough for basic photo editing or stuff like that, and maybe one may never use the vast majority of tools and features offered by Photoshop, but when you start the program (GIMP), you are overwhelmed by a huge number of windows from which you don't even know which is which. I, for one, used to use apps maximized, so I like them to be in ONE single window, and this way know that if I click on the task bar a button, I'm getting to the expected app, and don't need to make multiple clicks while I get to the one I wanted. Too many open windows makes me confused and frustrated. Firefox, for example, get this point, and instead of opening X number of windows for each site I visit, there is only one windows with X number of tabs. Firefox is a good example of good open source app, as it is Thunderbird too.
As for OpenOffice, is good enough for some little documents for yourself, but when things come to exchange documents with others (Microsoft Office users, using the DOC format) you're royally f*cked up. Maybe the ODT format will help on this.
Looking at the file managers of different systems. Windows has a usable Explorer, which doesn't have many features, but at least is working quite well. But not that well that I use it. I use Total Commander when using Windows. I always liked better these "commander"-like file managers with two (or more) panes. Maybe this is because I once used DOS and Norton Commander.
In GNOME the Nautilus isn't bad, but could be better. When you're viewing directories with huge number of files in it, the scrolling is...,well not too good. If you grab the scrollbar and move it down, you can't follow where you are. If I'm looking for a folder which has a name starting with "S", for example, I can't follow at which letter I am while dragging. Drag and drop does not work as expected, if I want to decompress a tar.gz file, it opens in File Roller (or something like that) from which I simply want to drag and drop into Nautilus. But only the second drag and drop move works. Why? Shouldn't this be a basic operation?
If I am at a file dialog and want to change the name of the file, I select it with mouse without selecting its extension and type some new name, right? Well, that's not so easy in GNOME either. If you are "too" fast with that mouse selection move you might end up dragging the selected part of the text (by default is all selected), instead of re-selecting just a part of the text. Confusing at least. This is when I fire up a terminal and start using Midnight Commander. Good old *working* app. Not so nice, but working, and I doesn't expect to be drag and drop compatible, so I'm not mad at it because of that doesn't work.
What I hate the most is when an app is pretending that it's capable of something, and then turns out not to be.
These, and other little issues are driving me crazy once in a while, when I just want to do something, and the system stands in my way in different kind of ways. I'm not interested in that GNOME's new version will include a nice "sticky notes" applet, and one of the (basic board or alike) games has new graphics or what. Instead I would be interested in seeing Nautilus improved, more and more usable, stuff like that. Who needs fancy sticky notes and games when even the basic file management functions aren't working as expected (not by me, but an average reasonable user).
Against all of these things I keep using Linux and other open source apps on Windows because I still hope that there will be improvements that will move the FOSS apps ahead. But it's not working to put our heads in the sand and be happy with the current situation.
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I don't know about the domain issue, but you definitely can change the new page.
Higher O2 content makes you age FASTER. In fact, environments with much higher O2 level than normal are poisonous for humans and animals. O2 is just as poisonous as any other gas. BTW, you can not burn oxygen; the process of burning something means that something gets in reaction with oxygen. Thus, oxygen doesn't get in reaction with oxygen, right? I could be wrong, though...
Awesomebar works fine for me. And it _is_ more inteligent. But finally... there are people who can keep up with new and innovative things, and there are others who can't.
Bullshit, those machines are secure as a mainframe.
Guess you're just filling the gap for the necessary car-analogy... Good point BTW.
This is because it is not the driver who changes the resolution. It is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRandR who does the magic.
Since when "Unbundle WMP from Windows" is so much unreasonable?
personal vendetta against MS ? A think the EU requires ALL operating system manufacturers to stop bundling different products into their OS. - Oh, waitLooks better with Firefox. With IE there is a white rectangle in the right side. Plain ugly...
Do you seriously believe that? Come on! We're talking about Microsoft here. Didn't this ring a bell?
If the student's work assignment requires a browser, how on earth could a browser be an unauthorized application?
See, here is the major problem, a problem of the educational system itself. It doesn't teach you to create a drawing, a text document, a chart, a spreadcheet (insert your favorite document type here), instead it tries to teach you AutoCAD, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, etc. And even worse: only specific versions of these programs, so when you're out of school you don't know word processing, you don't know spreadsheets, you only know Word and Excel, and IE - to stay with the article. It is like a kid from the kindergarten is told to use only a pencil from a specific vendor, instead of leaving to choose a pencil of your liking.
This is fucking insane. The poor kids are thought only to listen to what they are told to do, and then execute the "order". Do not even blink an eye!
Don't buy crap! If Seagate is only capable of spitting out this kind of crap, choose another vendor with a similar product.
That would be a good start, indeed.
I just saw a movie not so long ago, titled "Idiocracy". It is about the world becoming so dumb that economics just falls apart. The story is set in the US. Looks like the US is heading in that direction. It is worth watching that movie, it gives an insight into the future.
Or are we there already? How can people be such stupid to not understand that the whole US patent system as it is today is such a huge pile of crap. Something must change: or the US patent system, or big corporation's headquarters location.
You should be able to patent ONLY specific implementations of ideas, not the idea itself. Its totally crap. Crap, crap, crap.
With all these internal errors on Slashdot, apparently those dear little asstunnels got Slashdot too. Holy crap! They're in my kitchen already! Eating up all my tuna! F*** you! F*** you again! F*** you again and again and again!
I am not an expert of either of the licenses, but from where I'm standing I see this way. Let us see an analogy.
1.) Let us say that you are a cook. You invent a fantastic new pie recipe and you are kind to share your recipe with others. So you put your recipe in the window along with an agreement which says that if you take the recipe you can do anything you like with it as long as you keep the original author's name mentioned and automatically accept that agreement. And further on, you HAVE TO make available the recipe to anybody - modified or not - as long as you keep the name of the author AND the agreement. This way anyone taking your recipe will accept the agreement too. This is the GPL license way.
2.) The BSD license way than would be this. You put the recipe in the window with a different agreement that says you can take the recipe, do whatever you want with it as long as you mention the original authors name AND you CAN give it away IF you want it.
In the first case you are bound by the agreement that you HAVE TO make available the recipe, in any form - modified or not -, along with agreement, and anyone who takes it automatically accepts the agreement too, and will be bound by it just as you were and so on.
In the second case you can just modify the recipe and make it a lot better, put the recipe in a safe and lock it up, then open a small restaurant and make a hell lot of money with it. Without you ever being required to make your recipe publicly available.
Bottom line. If you create a recipe and put it in the window the BSD way by yourself, knowing what the BSD license is about, then complain about someone taken it, modified it and got rich using it, and not sharing the modifications with you or anybody else, that I think makes you a funny person, to say the least.
You're completely right.
But don't forget that in XP we don't need Aero, nor we want to run multiple games (or other apps) at the same time, just like we are used to it now.
We only want a driver that is able to use the card's DX10 features. Without all the sharing of the 3D hardware between apps.
People wiser than me already told that it can be done. You can always Google for it.
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THIS is the main starting point. You're absolutely right about that. Anyone, who finishes the school should have a basic knowledge about what WORD PROCESSING (NOT MS Word, NOT OO Writer, or any other specific program for that matter), SPREADSHEETS (NOT MS Excel, NOT OO Calc, etc.), PRESENTATIONS (same goes here as for the others) etc. are.
Schools should teach the concepts of these applications, not a specific application or (if we are lucky) two. If you're thinking that that cannot be done without a specific application, because you need one to exercise what you learn, you're right, but in this case let the teachers show the trainees at least two applications, for they can see the differences and similarities between the same operation done by both applications.
This way people would know the concepts of such tasks, not the menu items or shortcut-key combinations which do a specific operation in MS Word or OO Writer, respectively. But at the moment schools are teaching MS Word and not WORD PROCESSING in general. This is the main issue here. This is why people need training to work with OO or other office suites, because they only know that if I click this menu item in Word, page numbers will appear on the bottom of each page (this in an optimistic case, when someone actually doesn't start to write numbers by hand on each page's bottom).
My opinion is that this knowledge should be necessary to terminate a school with success nowadays. If you can't operate a computer at least this level (creating formatted text documents, etc.) is equivalent to not be able to write and read twentyfive years ago. This is just very sad.
I like Pidgin because it's available on the platforms I use (these would be Linux and Windows), it has support for the protocols I use (and a shitload of other protocols which I don't use, but I could if I wanted to). Most people say that it lacks video/audio support and they're right, but I'm not really interested in these two features, so this doesn't make a difference.
The thing which I doesn't like about Pidgin is that it forces simplicity at a point where I almost could say that it's a proof of concept application. Everything is minimalist about Pidgin, the last thing that made it a little bit nicer was that the buddy images now have rounded corners and your image is shown up next to the status switcher dropdown.
Pidgin could've been so much more appealing if the developers wanted to, but no, there is almost no control about how the buddy-list looks-like, not even color themes or something.
It may seam that I'm bashing Pidgin, but take a look at Adium, for example. It has lots of ways to customize the interface and how it works AND it looks nice, it is visually appealing. I know that Pidgin can be themed using GTK themes, but you can't theme ONLY Pidgin to be different from the rest of your apps on the desktop.
So, I'm basically proposing for somebody who has the capability and time to think about, and come up with a new "front-end" for libpurple, like Adium did, and create a new IM client which IS NICE and CAN BE CUSTOMIZED. It would be a different team for the user interface (the front end) and the pidgin team for the back-end (libpurple) which could work in collaboration.
Maybe I am too utopist but now, when the desktop eye-candy is becoming more popular, we should have a nicer IM client too.
Please note that eye-candy does not need to be obtrusive, and CAN help usability too.
Yes, it is GTK, it eats up less resources, and lacks the majority of Amarok's functions.
Sorry for the Listen guys, nice try (and it has potential), but although I am a Gnome guy I prefer Amarok over all other GTK/Gnome alternatives.
It's Marx, not Mark, you Bolshevist skunk! :-)
I agree with you.
But let us just do a little comparison here.
Let's say a guy with a decent job in America (the US) is downloading movies using BitTorrent software. The thing is that this way he gets the movie for free, he only pays for internet connection, which he would pay already. A recent movie release in the US is something between $10 and $40 (I'm not a US citizen, so I looked at WalMart's prices). What is the average monthly sallary for an average guy? $2500 to $5000? http://www.worldsalaries.org/usa.shtml In all cases is more than $1000 a month. For a quick calculation let us assume the salary is $3000. From this amount of money he could get 120 DVD releases, calculating with an average $25 per DVD.
Let's take a look at a Romanian (I'm from here) guy with decent job and salary. The average monthly salary is somewhere around $300. The average price for a DVD release (which is quite old compared to the new releases in the US, because here, the new releases come after 5-6 months) is $20. Now it's easy math, the Romanian guy could buy 15 DVD releases, which aren't even the newest ones.
I know these calculations are vague, to say the least, because one doesn't spend his whole salary to buy DVDs, but also think that stuff like clothes, consumer electronics, etc. cost more than in the US. Only food is a little bit cheaper or at the same price as in the US.
Also think of that the internet has "opened the eyes" of people living in poor countries for what they "could" buy, what is available on the international market, and those people are willing to have those stuff too, but their financial status doesn't allow them.
My point is that the market isn't fair, why (and how) should a poor country's citizen pay almost the same price for a product as a rich country's citizen for the product which is not even the newest.
You are totally right that the recipients will want those bytes at different times, BUT this is not like current television or radio broadcasts, where once broad casted they no longer exist. The data which is intended to be broad casted (in the example, an Olympic event) is stored at the same time it is broad casted and not only by the producer or creator of the data, but by every other party (or at least the proxy-like ones) who is receiving the data. It's a bit like BitTorrent: the more interested in getting the data, the more available sources to get from as the transfer progresses in time. It's kind of like cashing today: for some amount of time the data chunks will get cashed on multiple locations (where they go trough) and this way the data itself "lives" longer. The more clients request the data, the data itself will be available from multiple locations, and you get it faster when you ask for it.
And if you're thinking that this way there will be stored redundant information on a horrible amount of locations and this means an even more horrible quantity of stored data, then you're wrong. This way the cached data remains in cache only if there is interest for it, and if there isn't then after some time it gets replaced by something new, which has a much more interest for.
This whole idea is very similar to what BitTorrent is, just even more decentralized, and in order to work the needed protocols and tools need to be implemented.
And the good thing is this whole stuff could run on the back of existing TCP/IP architecture.
Although I like open source apps, I used to chose them over commercial ones if there are equally useful as they commercial counterparts. Sadly there is not so much of these kind of apps. For example let's compare Photoshop and GIMP. Maybe GIMP is good enough for basic photo editing or stuff like that, and maybe one may never use the vast majority of tools and features offered by Photoshop, but when you start the program (GIMP), you are overwhelmed by a huge number of windows from which you don't even know which is which. I, for one, used to use apps maximized, so I like them to be in ONE single window, and this way know that if I click on the task bar a button, I'm getting to the expected app, and don't need to make multiple clicks while I get to the one I wanted. Too many open windows makes me confused and frustrated. Firefox, for example, get this point, and instead of opening X number of windows for each site I visit, there is only one windows with X number of tabs. Firefox is a good example of good open source app, as it is Thunderbird too. As for OpenOffice, is good enough for some little documents for yourself, but when things come to exchange documents with others (Microsoft Office users, using the DOC format) you're royally f*cked up. Maybe the ODT format will help on this. Looking at the file managers of different systems. Windows has a usable Explorer, which doesn't have many features, but at least is working quite well. But not that well that I use it. I use Total Commander when using Windows. I always liked better these "commander"-like file managers with two (or more) panes. Maybe this is because I once used DOS and Norton Commander. In GNOME the Nautilus isn't bad, but could be better. When you're viewing directories with huge number of files in it, the scrolling is ...,well not too good. If you grab the scrollbar and move it down, you can't follow where you are. If I'm looking for a folder which has a name starting with "S", for example, I can't follow at which letter I am while dragging. Drag and drop does not work as expected, if I want to decompress a tar.gz file, it opens in File Roller (or something like that) from which I simply want to drag and drop into Nautilus. But only the second drag and drop move works. Why? Shouldn't this be a basic operation?
If I am at a file dialog and want to change the name of the file, I select it with mouse without selecting its extension and type some new name, right? Well, that's not so easy in GNOME either. If you are "too" fast with that mouse selection move you might end up dragging the selected part of the text (by default is all selected), instead of re-selecting just a part of the text. Confusing at least. This is when I fire up a terminal and start using Midnight Commander. Good old *working* app. Not so nice, but working, and I doesn't expect to be drag and drop compatible, so I'm not mad at it because of that doesn't work.
What I hate the most is when an app is pretending that it's capable of something, and then turns out not to be.
These, and other little issues are driving me crazy once in a while, when I just want to do something, and the system stands in my way in different kind of ways. I'm not interested in that GNOME's new version will include a nice "sticky notes" applet, and one of the (basic board or alike) games has new graphics or what. Instead I would be interested in seeing Nautilus improved, more and more usable, stuff like that. Who needs fancy sticky notes and games when even the basic file management functions aren't working as expected (not by me, but an average reasonable user).
Against all of these things I keep using Linux and other open source apps on Windows because I still hope that there will be improvements that will move the FOSS apps ahead. But it's not working to put our heads in the sand and be happy with the current situation.