I'm making the switch to a desktop client, because gmail is broken in Opera. I'm sick of fairly random line changes, and not being able to paste text with a middle click. It's even more disabled in Konqueror, and I refuse to use firefox for my own reasons.
It's also slow, disconnects occasionally, and inaccessible when I'm not online.
I just read the article, because the claims seemed bogus. I discovered your numbers were wrong.
From the last 6 month period of 2006:
Windows: 39, 12 severe, average 21 day fix OSX: 49, 1 severe, average 66 day fix Red Hat: 208, 2 severe, average of 58 day fix
For the first 6 months of 2006: Windows: 22, average 13 day fix OSX: 21, average 37 day fix Red Hat: 42, average 13 day fix
So, it seems you confused the two periods a little.
Also in the article:
The one bright spot in all of this is that of the 208 Red Hat vulnerabilities, the most of the top five operating systems, only two were considered high severity, 130 were medium severity, and 76 were considered low.
The two spaces rule actually came about because of typewriters. It used to be that typesetters and printers used a special block, giving them 1.5 spaces. When the type writer came out, every character had to be the same width. To maintain the wider space after the switch, it became custom to use two spaces, making the space after a sentence even longer.
Now, with modern word processors, the extra space after a period is handled for you. Therefore, the need to add two spaces is unnecessary. Infact, we're back to the point where it is advisable not to use multiple spacing characters in any situation. Think of how annoying it is when people uses spaces in Word instead of tabs, or multiple tabs instead of setting the proper position of the first one. LaTeX is a great example of the priority of consistent typesetting.
I don't know how this applies to the web, but I didn't see any double spaces used in your post.
I actually did 'rm *' to clear a partition I was re-installing linux on. I forgot that mkfs is better for that, and also won't let you accidentally remove files on other partitions mounted to it (ie/boot). That was annoying.
Of course, for it to work, it should be 'rm -rf *'. That way it doesn't ask you those pesky questions.
You should try "Monkey Wars" from Super Monky Ball on the Wii. It's pretty fun, and awesome. By no means is it a complete FPS, but it definitely shows the potential for those games on the platform.
The city management screens were almost dual screen to begin with too. I'm thinking Civ 1, since I played it the most. Civilization would be a perfect game for the DS.
SDTV is not going away: stand-alone SDTV tuners will allow you to receive digital TV and convert it to analog for display on your old TV, or for recording on you even older VCR.
All energy must come from somewhere. It's true that global warming is a huge problem, but changing from one source to another will just cause other problems.
Wind power creates local climate change by pulling energy from the wind. This changes wind speeds, reduces the temperature of the air, and affects energy cycles around the world.
Tidal power does the same thing, but with water.
Solar power takes energy that would nomally go to the planet from the sun. I don't know what effects that would cause, but I'm fairly certain they exist.
The list goes on and on. Reducing energy consumption is necessary to prevent environmental damage, because using other sources will change what the problem is.
After someone asked about where the patches were, Linus said the following:
I sent them to the gnomecc list (the changes to let control center enable it were bigger than the changes to the metacity ones, but more importantly, control-center actually had a mailing list address in its README).
The metacity patches I also sent to maintainers that I tried to google for, because there isn't even any submission address in the sources that I could find.
Of course, the gnomecc mailing list is "by members only", so I don't know if the patches ever got accepted by the moderator.
Quite frankly, I think it's interesting how (a) no developer contacts were listed and (b) the one that did list it doesn't even accept email from outside....
(and maybe give hints to them that if you have a README file that says "REPORTING BUGS AND SUBMITTING PATCHES", it might be good to actually give an email to send things to, instead of saying "Send me mail" with no email address actually ever mentioned!)
I had the same problem with Kubuntu. I decided to install Gentoo when Kubuntu messed up an update (somehow worse than yum, or even straight rpm, has ever done for me yet).
I just finished installing it earlier today. Of course, it took 5.5 days, because it's a 300MHz celeron, and I made a mistake setting up distcc.
I'm never touching Ubuntu again! I might try debian in the future.
All the options are tucked away in Control Center, or the settings menu -> configure (for individual apps). There are very few radio buttons and checkboxes. Most of the options are clearly labeled and controled with combo boxes, sliders, or lists.
I spend about 1/2 an hour upon installation to configure it how I want. If you want to change more stuff, it'll naturally take longer.
All the excess buttons in the apps are just tools, and can be removed fairly easily in the settings dialog.
The "configurability switch" would be selecting "command center" from the menu.
I'm worried about the action battle system. I've always prefered the turn based approach, even though Star Ocean was pretty cool.
The other thing that concerns me is co-op play. Will this limit the experience for those of us who don't have friends who like to get together and play video RPG's?
Furnaces have thermostats over the pilot light to make sure it's burning. If it stops burning fuel is shut off until it is manually ignited again.
The gas flowing to run the pilot light is very low. That way, there's no fire risk unless you drop a match on something flammable near the furnace as you ignite it.
Leaks in the system are checked before opening emergency valves. If the valves are closed before any damage can be done to the line, it drastically reduces the fire risk, and amount of wasted natural gas.
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I'm making the switch to a desktop client, because gmail is broken in Opera. I'm sick of fairly random line changes, and not being able to paste text with a middle click. It's even more disabled in Konqueror, and I refuse to use firefox for my own reasons.
It's also slow, disconnects occasionally, and inaccessible when I'm not online.
I, for one, want to have the highest quality recording of a 28 year old talk by Bill Gates. FLAC just won't cut it.
I go to UW, and at first glance, I thought that picture was current day.
Also, the Math Faculty's mascot is the pink tie.
From the last 6 month period of 2006:
Windows: 39, 12 severe, average 21 day fix
OSX: 49, 1 severe, average 66 day fix
Red Hat: 208, 2 severe, average of 58 day fix
For the first 6 months of 2006:
Windows: 22, average 13 day fix
OSX: 21, average 37 day fix
Red Hat: 42, average 13 day fix
So, it seems you confused the two periods a little.
Also in the article:
The two spaces rule actually came about because of typewriters. It used to be that typesetters and printers used a special block, giving them 1.5 spaces. When the type writer came out, every character had to be the same width. To maintain the wider space after the switch, it became custom to use two spaces, making the space after a sentence even longer.
Now, with modern word processors, the extra space after a period is handled for you. Therefore, the need to add two spaces is unnecessary. Infact, we're back to the point where it is advisable not to use multiple spacing characters in any situation. Think of how annoying it is when people uses spaces in Word instead of tabs, or multiple tabs instead of setting the proper position of the first one. LaTeX is a great example of the priority of consistent typesetting.
I don't know how this applies to the web, but I didn't see any double spaces used in your post.
I actually did 'rm *' to clear a partition I was re-installing linux on. I forgot that mkfs is better for that, and also won't let you accidentally remove files on other partitions mounted to it (ie /boot). That was annoying.
Of course, for it to work, it should be 'rm -rf *'. That way it doesn't ask you those pesky questions.
My first time playing Mario 64, I had a friend over, and he said, "That Peach is one hot polygon babe."
Close, but the third time there was no mention of sound.
Nerves do not transmit by electricity (so current teaching is false): 3 times
Nerves actually transmit by sound: 2 times
Have you been spying on me?
You should try "Monkey Wars" from Super Monky Ball on the Wii. It's pretty fun, and awesome. By no means is it a complete FPS, but it definitely shows the potential for those games on the platform.
1. Make laws that require use of ODF in government.
2. Charge extra for ODF format in MS Office.
3. Users too stubborn to use anything but Office.
Things don't really look too bad for MS.
The city management screens were almost dual screen to begin with too. I'm thinking Civ 1, since I played it the most. Civilization would be a perfect game for the DS.
Hey! My VCR is newer than my TV.
All energy must come from somewhere. It's true that global warming is a huge problem, but changing from one source to another will just cause other problems.
Wind power creates local climate change by pulling energy from the wind. This changes wind speeds, reduces the temperature of the air, and affects energy cycles around the world.
Tidal power does the same thing, but with water.
Solar power takes energy that would nomally go to the planet from the sun. I don't know what effects that would cause, but I'm fairly certain they exist.
The list goes on and on. Reducing energy consumption is necessary to prevent environmental damage, because using other sources will change what the problem is.
I lost faith in firefox. I use opera now. It's mostly because the interface is just so much better.
So, I'm too lazy to find the article, but I remember reading on /. a few months ago that they're redoing the RPM format.
The entire code will be re-written as a first step. After that, who knows?
Your signature is very appropriate there.
People should read the thread where all this happened: http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/deskt
After someone asked about where the patches were, Linus said the following:
There have been a few posts about the brokenness of Kubuntu. You might want to switch to another distribution, like debian.
I had the same problem with Kubuntu. I decided to install Gentoo when Kubuntu messed up an update (somehow worse than yum, or even straight rpm, has ever done for me yet).
I just finished installing it earlier today. Of course, it took 5.5 days, because it's a 300MHz celeron, and I made a mistake setting up distcc.
I'm never touching Ubuntu again! I might try debian in the future.
If he acknowledged the joke, and gave the information (without trying to correct), he would've gotten more respect.
The joke was funny, the information from the reply was interesting, but the actual reply was poorly done.
It sound's like you've never really used KDE.
All the options are tucked away in Control Center, or the settings menu -> configure (for individual apps). There are very few radio buttons and checkboxes. Most of the options are clearly labeled and controled with combo boxes, sliders, or lists.
I spend about 1/2 an hour upon installation to configure it how I want. If you want to change more stuff, it'll naturally take longer.
All the excess buttons in the apps are just tools, and can be removed fairly easily in the settings dialog.
The "configurability switch" would be selecting "command center" from the menu.
I'm worried about the action battle system. I've always prefered the turn based approach, even though Star Ocean was pretty cool.
The other thing that concerns me is co-op play. Will this limit the experience for those of us who don't have friends who like to get together and play video RPG's?
That should be coming really soon. I read on digg today that some drivers have just added support for the IR cameras on the remote.
Furnaces have thermostats over the pilot light to make sure it's burning. If it stops burning fuel is shut off until it is manually ignited again.
The gas flowing to run the pilot light is very low. That way, there's no fire risk unless you drop a match on something flammable near the furnace as you ignite it.
Leaks in the system are checked before opening emergency valves. If the valves are closed before any damage can be done to the line, it drastically reduces the fire risk, and amount of wasted natural gas.